The TCPA has long championed that the way places are planned, designed, built and managed has a significant influence over whether communities are able to live healthy lives. The built and natural environments are important determinants of health and shape health inequalities.
We can offer councils and communities advice about planning healthier, more active environments and ensuring that plans and policies help deliver public health objectives. Evidence shows that creating ‘complete, compact and connected’ neighbourhoods – otherwise known as 20-minute neighbourhoods – results in places that are healthier to live in and contribute to climate targets.
The TCPA have published a range of influential reports and practical guidance documents which can be found in our Resource library.
Contact
Please contact Gemma Hyde for further information.
The 20-minute neighbourhood
The TCPA is working in coalition with a range of partners to learn from places that already are implementing 20-minute neighbourhoods and supporting local authorities to create them in the context of the English planning system.
Healthy Homes Campaign
This campaign calls on government to adopt our Healthy Homes Bill, which would require all new homes and neighbourhoods to be of decent quality, and effectively outlaw those which undermine residents’ health and wellbeing.
Workshops
Healthy Local Plans and policies
The TCPA has extensive experience of helping councils use public health data to strengthen their Local Plans and policies to ensure new development supports good health for all. We can provide bespoke practical advice for your area.
TCPA healthy place-making publications
A collection of the TCPA’s healthy place-making publications
Useful healthy place-making resources
A collection of helpful healthy place-making resources from external organisations
Resources
Healthy Homes Act – Special Journal Edition
The May / June issue of our journal, Town & Country Planning, with a special Healthy Homes Act section is available to all here.
Guide to creating a technical research paper on ageing well
Explains how to find and use health evidence to create a technical research paper on ageing well. It is based on the context in Worcestershire, but sets out how other councils can find and use local evidence to create their own locally specific technical research paper on ageing well.
News & Blog
Bringing the Healthy Homes debate to the centre of British democracy
Parliamentary campaign events can be conflicting affairs. And, as a general rule of thumb, the more meaningful and successful they…
This is the way
Creating 20-minute neighbourhoods offers many benefits – but how do we get the idea off the page, and into our…
Healthy Housing: A life or death issue
Healthy housing is a life and death issue that goes well beyond fire. The Building Safety Bill is at risk…
