Davidson Prize Winners 2025!

We’re delighted to be part of a consortium named as winners of the 2025 Davidson Prize! 

The Davidson Prize is an annual design ideas competition which celebrates transformative architecture for homes. The 2025 theme was "Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes".  Which sought ideas to address the UK’s ambitious goal of building 1.5 million homes over the next 5 years.

We collaborated with Nudge Community Builders, Clifton Emery Design, Millfields Trust, and Devon and Cornwall Planning Consultants to respond to the theme. We were able to share our insights from PEC Homes to help identify how barriers to community-led housing can be overcome. 

Our proposal, named '300 Homes within a Union Street Mile', drew on the collective experience of the consortium to re-imagine how cities can regenerate to include energy efficient, easily made affordable homes that will rebuild the strength and resilience of our communities.  

Jury chair and chief executive of Public Practice, Pooja Agrawal, said:

‘The judges were truly inspired by 300 Homes within a Union Street Mile. We believe this proposal has the potential to be transformational. 

The 300 Homes proposal  demonstrated how small groups of affordable rented homes with co-living features could be integrated into Union Street, with an emphasis on sensitively  integrating housing into the existing community. 

Jury Chair Pooja Agrawal, added:

‘For too long, the sector has relied on and incentivised housebuilders as the primary solution to meeting ambitious housing targets. This proposal challenges that norm, demonstrating the need for more collaborative, grass-roots and innovative approaches that we believe are genuinely scalable. It captured all of our imaginations – not only for its mission to unlock the potential of our high streets and its commitment to affordable housing and community empowerment, but also for how precisely it identifies the barriers that local people and initiatives face when trying to engage with our planning and financial systems.’