Why is planning important for climate change?
Planning can provide lasting resilience to the impacts of climate change. It can implement local measures such as sustainable drainage and well-designed development. Planning can also provide a strategic framework to deal with the impact of the predicted 1.15 metres or more sea level rise by 2100.
Planning must also consider how these issues play out over the lifespan of development (usually a minimum of 100 years) and to consider future climate impacts. Our response now will lock us into certain irreversible pathways.
Climate change at the TCPA
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. This has been informed by comprehensive knowledge supported by both UK research and European-funded projects on adaptation, green infrastructure, human health and energy.
Please click on the links below to access TCPA’s resources on planning for climate change and for information on the training the TCPA offers. These resources are aimed primarily at local authority officers but are also useful for elected members, practitioners, students and anyone interested in the contribution of the planning system to addressing the climate challenge.
The TCPA Offer
The TCPA can provide bespoke training and CPD presentation sessions and workshops for local authorities on a wide range of issues, including planning for climate change.
Become a member
Join our community of members to access our archive of recordings from past climate related webinars and workshops and receive discounts on future events.
Training videos
Climate adaptation
These videos are designed to introduce the importance of planning for climate change. They are useful for anyone who is trying to understand how the planning system can contribute to addressing the climate challenge.
Resources
Building a safer future: a guide for communities on the planning system and flood risk
This guidance for communities, written in partnership with the National Flood Forum, explains how flood risk is dealt with in the English planning system and how communities can most effectively get their voices and concerns heard in planning decisions.
News & Blog
Press Release: ‘Make every planning decision matter on climate change’
For immediate release: ‘Make every planning decision matter on climate change’ says coalition of planning and environmental NGOs Following COP26,…
Last chance to unite on climate action
The TCPA has produced many blogs over the last six months about why the Government’s planning reform agenda is taking…
The climate implications of COVID-19 – short-term standstill, long-term change?
While the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly a crisis, we are still in the throes of another – the climate crisis. Climate…
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