Jonathan Falkingham named in Queen's birthday honours list

Mr Falkingham, 51 and from Liverpool, featured on the list following a recommendation from the Prime Minister and now joins his fellow Urban Splash co founder Tom Bloxham MBE in being granted the honour.

The MBE is the latest accolade to be granted to Jonathan, whose previous personal awards include the Institute of Directors North West Director of the Year and The Ernst & Young National Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He said: “I am absolutely thrilled with this announcement and to join the ranks of other business people who have been bestowed this honour.”

Jonathan is one of the country’s most renowned architects. He founded the shedkm practice in Liverpool in the 1980s, before meeting Tom Bloxham MBE to discuss plans for the redevelopment of the Liverpool Palace. The pair embarked on a 20-year journey in transforming some of the country’s most dilapidated and challenging buildings and transforming them into places people can live, work and play. It is this commitment to architecture, design and regeneration that has earned him his MBE.

He continued: “The fundamental ethos of Urban Splash is to transform disused buildings and land and use great architecture to make them into contemporary communities. We’ve received some fantastic awards for our efforts over the past 20 years and this really is the pinnacle for me personally.”

Those accolades include 336 industry awards for the work that the company has carried out on schemes around the UK, as well as 51 awards from the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) – the most awarded to any developer in the country. Added to that, Urban Splash has also made the RIBA’s prestigious Stirling Prize long list for its efforts in redeveloping the Grade II Listed Park Hill scheme in Sheffield, the results of which will be announced later in the year.

Concluded Jonathan: “Having third parties recognise what we do; from Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours list awarding the efforts of myself and Tom as directors, to the industry bodies who best know our work recognising the efforts we have gone to is constantly rewarding. It gives us even more passion and energy to keep doing it and spend another 20 years delivering the same standards of work and coming up with new ideas to help meet the UK’s housing needs.”

As well as his role as creative director at Urban Splash, Jonathan still sits on the board of shedkm also holds a number of other positions; Trustee of both the RIBA and Royal Court Theatre Liverpool.

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Notes to editors: Urban Splash

Award winning property developer Urban Splash is the country’s leading regeneration company and has delivered over 60 mixed use schemes including residential property of all tenures, commercial office, retail and a hotel.

Founded in 1993 by Tom Bloxham MBE and Jonathan Falkingham MBE, the company is based in Manchester with regional offices in Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield and Plymouth.

Urban Splash has delivered challenging and exciting regeneration projects across the country including Fort Dunlop in Birmingham, Chimney Pot Park in Salford, Castlefield and New Islington in Manchester, The Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Royal William Yard in Plymouth, Lister Mills in Bradford, Rotunda in Birmingham, Matchworks in Garston and the Ropewalks in Liverpool.

The company has invested over half a billion pounds creating thousands of new homes and jobs in over four million sq ft of space.

The company has received 336 awards to date for its commitment to architecture, design, regeneration and business success including 51 RIBA Awards the most won by a property developer.