New guidance for embedding health and wellbeing into the design coding
Quality of Life Foundation has released new guidance, Design Codes for Health and Wellbeing, which has been developed in partnership with…
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Unlocking affordable and secure homes
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes principles that all new housing…
Healthy Homes award category – shortlisted schemes
Six housing schemes gave presentations for the new Healthy Homes category of the Pineapples Awards The newly launched ‘Healthy Homes’…
New research highlights pathways to high-quality housing in disadvantaged communities
Disadvantaged communities routinely put up with poorly designed housing development. But it doesn’t need to be this way.A new study…
The NPPF and Ebenezer Howard’s inconvenient legacy
As we face another year of radical planning reform, Howard’s genius for imagining a compassionate future remains a demanding inspiration,…
New planning for flood risk training resources launched
New modules have been added to the planning for flood risk e-learning hub.
Regional policy: the North-South divide
Sometimes government indifference, however parochial, can speak volumes about two-speed England, national priorities, and the absence of any regional policy,…
Is it time for a revival of freight on the UK’s waterways?
Our inland waterways are an underutilised mode of transport infrastructure, but lack of access to the waterside in new developments…
How do we ensure all new homes have access to local amenities, nature and transport?
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes principles that all new housing developments must…
Why all new homes must minimise air pollution
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes principles that all new housing…
It’s time to be visionary: The overarching message from the 2024 TCPA Annual Conference
Housing numbers are important, but we need to capture the imagination of the public and focus on delivering better placesThis…
Planning Reform: in defence of democratic planning
(Photo: Civic Square aims to enable community-led transformation and transition in Birmingham. It is one of the case studies featured…
