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  • 21st Century New Towns

    What should a new town look and feel like? Our new pamphlet is designed to be a prompt for communities to create their own vision for future new towns.

  • Practical Hope

    We’ve added new case studies to our Practical Hope resource. Be inspired by these examples of community action from across the UK.

  • Restricting the appeal and availability of junk food in England: The role of local councils

    This report explores how amendments to planning policy and regulation could help councils to better support the health of their communities.

  • Garden Cities and New Towns

    The TCPA is campaigning for a new generation of Garden Cities based on modern Garden City Principles. Our campaigns are underpinned by research exploring lessons from the past and present, including the New Towns programme.

  • Planning for Climate Change

    The TCPA has a strong track record in research, policy formulation and political influence on climate adaptation and mitigation in the context of spatial planning.

  • Long-term stewardship

    Long-term stewardship is a holistic approach to ensuring places can be looked after in perpetuity. This approach is at the heart of the Garden City model and has relevance for the creation of new and renewed communities at all scales.

  • Healthy Homes Principles

    Each month, our blog series explores one of 12 Healthy Homes Principles: a framework for ensuring better and more inclusive health outcomes in all new housing developments.

The Town and Country Planning Association

For over a hundred years, we have worked to challenge, inspire and support people to create healthy, sustainable and resilient places that are fair for everyone.

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Areas of work

The way that places are planned, designed, maintained and regenerated can help or hinder work to tackle health inequalities, climate change, and economic resilience. The TCPA works, therefore, on a wide range of topics: find out more about the work we do by exploring the themes below.

News & Blogs

The TCPA is excited to launch our vision for 21st Century New Towns 

Our new publication is a prompt to help communities express what they want to see from future new towns Where…

Community Participation and Social Justice, Healthy Place-making, New Towns
Blog
Charlotte Llewellyn, TCPA

New Towns glory or Eco Towns dead end? 

As the New Towns Taskforce reaches its final conclusions, success will depend on building a public consensus about inclusive growth,…

Garden Cities and New Towns, New Towns
Blog
Hugh Ellis, TCPA

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Latest resources

21st Century New Towns

Toolkit
Community Participation and Social Justice, New Towns

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  • discounts on events, training and books
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