Awards ceremony and venue
The Healthy City Design 2026 Awards Dinner takes place in the Evolution Suite at Old Trafford, home of Manchester United Football Club and the heart of one of the UK’s most ambitious regeneration programmes.
Celebrating Excellence at the Heart of Trafford’s Transformation
Date: Tuesday 20 October
Time: 19.00–22.00
Venue: Old Trafford Football Stadium, Manchester United FC
Ticket price: £150 + VAT – Book your ticket
Join friends and colleagues from the Congress for the Healthy City Design Awards Dinner and Ceremony, hosted at Old Trafford Football Stadium, the home of Manchester United FC.
Old Trafford sits at the centre of one of the UK’s most significant regeneration programmes. Plans for a new 100,000-seat Manchester United stadium, together with the wider Old Trafford Regeneration Masterplan, represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the Trafford Wharfside district into a vibrant mixed-use destination with new homes, workplaces, public spaces, transport connections and community facilities.The vision extends far beyond a new stadium, positioning sport as a catalyst for economic renewal, environmental sustainability and healthier urban living.
Integrated development
The wider area is also becoming a major focus for health, wellbeing and innovation. Just a short distance from Old Trafford, Therme Manchester is set to become the UK’s first city-based wellbeing resort, combining thermal bathing, nature, water, fitness, relaxation, family recreation and preventative health within a landmark destination designed to improve physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Alongside the proposed stadium development, it reflects a broader vision in which health, leisure, culture, biodiversity and public space are integrated into the regeneration of an entire urban district.
Investment in healthier lifestyles
Together, these complementary developments demonstrate how investment in sport, recreation, health infrastructure and placemaking can support healthier lifestyles, stronger communities and more resilient local economies. They also embody the ambitions that Healthy City Design has championed throughout the past decade: embedding health within every aspect of city-making – from planning, housing and mobility to climate resilience, biodiversity, culture and community infrastructure.
Against this inspiring backdrop, the Healthy City Design Awards Dinner will bring together leading policymakers, planners, architects, urban designers, developers, public health professionals, researchers and innovators from across the UK and around the world. Guests will enjoy a drinks reception, three-course dinner and the presentation of the Healthy City Design Awards, recognising outstanding achievements in creating healthier, more sustainable and equitable places.
As Healthy City Design celebrates its tenth anniversary, there could be no more fitting setting in which to recognise excellence.Together with Salford’s centenary and the wider transformation taking place across Greater Manchester, the Awards Dinner offers an opportunity not only to celebrate outstanding projects from around the world but also to experience first-hand a city-region demonstrating how health can shape the future of regeneration, investment and urban transformation.
