Top 50 clients: Runners-up

Arsenal FC

The football club won plaudits for building a new stadium as a mixed-use quarter. One voter said: “They worked closely with the key stakeholders, especially the borough and the local community.”

Catalyst Housing Group

The southern-based affordable housing provider is delivering badly needed homes in the capital, in schemes such as Oaklands Court in Shepherds Bush, and Page Road, Hounslow, both in west London.

Chelsfield Places/Sir Stuart Lipton

This placing represents support for Sir Stuart Lipton, the property guru behind London’s Broadgate. Lipton is now working with Elliott Bernerd in developer Chelsfield Partners.

Circle Anglia

Much of this housing association’s development is in key regeneration areas such as Thames Gateway. One nomination praised development director Andy Doylend as “innovative… and willing to go the extra mile”.

Development Securities

The developer is best known for the PaddingtonCentral office-led scheme with its high-quality public realm. One voter praised it for “single-handedly creating a new office location at Paddington”.

Genesis Housing Group

The affordable housing provider is an innovator, with initiatives like the Logic Homes consortium to its credit. As one voter noted: “They are prepared to push the boundaries and think creatively to deliver.” Grainger PLC

Landlord Grainger is now active as a regeneration developer creating homes, offices, retail and community facilities through such projects as the 208-home Hornsey Road project in north London.

Hammerson

The developer was nominated and listed largely for its efforts to regenerate Cricklewood, north London. The project will regenerate 240ha of derelict land around Brent Cross shopping centre.

Igloo

Igloo Regeneration Fund is listed for putting financial muscle into regeneration projects. Its projects include Roath Basin in Cardiff, a scheme of 1 million ft2 of commercial space and more than 1,000 homes.

Hull City Build

With ING Real Estate’s £200m St Stephen’s mixed-use scheme on site, the delivery agency is prompting serious activity in Hull. One voter praised it for “going about regeneration in a creative way.”

In Partnership

This small developer helps deliver large-scale transformation by working with local authorities and public bodies. Voters praised its partnership approach and its managing director Duncan Sutherland.

Isis Waterside Regeneration

Formed specifically to develop land assets alongside waterways, the developer has made a name for the design quality of schemes such as Islington Wharf in Manchester and Granary Wharf in Leeds.

Land Securities

The developer is best known for its plans for Ebbsfleet, the new community alongside the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. But the company is also delivering such projects as the retail-led Princesshay scheme in Exeter.

Lend Lease

The developer behind the £5bn regeneration of Greenwich Peninsula has, in Europe chair Nigel Hugill and development director Robin Butler, “immense knowledge of regeneration and planning”, says one voter.

London & Quadrant Group

The South-east-based HA and its low-cost home ownership companion Tower Homes have all it takes to produce mixed communities. Its flagship scheme is Stratford Eye, homes and office space in east London.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Barking won praise for the current redevelopment of the town centre. It was also recognised for “taking on the challenge of turning around a difficult location, amid community tensions”.

London Borough of Lewisham

The borough is using SRB funding to improve retail in the town centre. Now it is attracting private money as AMEC and Taylor Woodrow are set to deliver the £250m Lewisham Gateway scheme.

London Borough of Southwark

Overall, 40% of the borough is undergoing regeneration with £40bn worth of projects under construction. Among those is the Heygate Estate, a key piece of the Elephant and Castle revamp.

London Development Agency

Mayor Ken Livingstone’s agency is best known for acquiring the land for the 2012 Olympics. One voter noted: “It has a big challenge on its hands in helping to deliver the Olympics.”

Mansfield council

The council’s “proactive” and “innovative” approach and its refusal to concede defeat when excluded from the government’s original housing market renewal pathfinder programme won the respect of our readers.

Metropolitan Housing Trust

The affordable housing provider was nominated for: “Getting on with the unglamorous business of regenerating inner city estates and neighbourhoods.” Chief executive Tony Shoults was praised.

Plus Housing Group

Affordable housing provider Plus is developing 1,000 homes in its 2006-2008 programme and many of those are in tough locations, including the pathfinder areas of Liverpool and East Lancashire.

RegenCo Urban Regeneration Company

RegenCo faces challenges in tackling physical and social regeneration issues. Still it remains ambitious, with a CZWG-designed 1,500-unit scheme at North Smethwick in the pipeline.

Thames Valley Housing Association

This housing association has a major development programme in the South-east, and is a construction innovator as one nomination recognised: “It is happy to pioneer new technology.”

Yorkshire Forward

The regional development agency has its policies in place and a string of projects in progress in locations as diverse as Sheffield city centre, Wakefield, Bradford and Scarborough.