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July-August 2024 issue

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Colin Ward special

This preview from the July-August 2024 edition sees a number of contributors pay tribute to Colin Ward: the ‘gentle anarchist’, radical urbanist and former TCPA employee.

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January-February 2024 issue

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Postcards from the edge

Despite the weakness of the COP 28 agreement and constraints imposed by a recent WMS, we have an obligation not to give up the climate fight, say Hugh Ellis and Celia Davis

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A planning revolution under the radar

The most recent round of apparently piecemeal changes to the planning system – undertaken with little openness and little democratic legitimacy – is driven by consistency in continuing the neoliberalising drive to remove the 1947 planning system and democratic and local control of development decision-making, potentially laying the ground for a dramatically changed planning system, says Tim Marshall

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The uses of strategy – how the dismantled English planning system might be repaired

Serious damage has been caused by the steady erosion and dismantling of strategic planning institutions and processes, and it is time to grasp the nettle and reinvent the mechanisms of strategic planning and the search for agreement, says Ian Wray

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November-December 2023 issue

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November-December 2023 issue

We are pleased to make the full November-December 2023 issue available for download.

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September-October 2023 issue

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Special Section: Healthy Homes

We are pleased to make the full September-October 2023 issue featuring a Special Section on Healthy Homes available to download.

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July-August 2023 issue

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Planning reform in England — a proposal

The Chartered Planners in Academic Practice (CPiAP) group set out a ‘manifesto’ on planning reform, arguing that reforms to date have failed to properly address the excessive level of detail in plans, the management of uncertainty, and ways to connect central and local government — and proposing a strengthening of planning’s role as an integrating mechanism for supporting the country’s economic, social and environmental needs

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May-June 2023 issue

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Where have all the strategic planners gone?

A new generation of strategic planners is desperately needed, but, although the current situation is bleak, there may be light at the end of the tunnel, says Catriona Riddell

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March-April 2023 issue

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Frozen in aspic — planning and pragmatism in the siting of nuclear power stations in Britain

Despite efforts at strategic siting and the problems posed by changing circumstances — especially the challenges arising out of climate change — the geography of nuclear power infrastructure is stubbornly inflexible, and has barely changed since it was first established over half a century ago, as Andrew Blowers explains

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Capturing value — the return of the land question in planning

The recent protests against the High Court decision on rights to wild-camp in Dartmoor National Park have spurred renewed interest in land justice issues — and this connects not just with access but also with wider questions of ownership and development land values, says Edward Shepherd

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January-February 2023 issue

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Special Section: Action for ‘Held-Back’ Places

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November-December 2022 issue

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Governance and participation in planning — lessons from London

Shifts in the ‘what, who and how’ of governance have far-reaching implications for planning and participation, says Sue Brownill, writing with Mike Raco and Frances Brill

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September-October 2022 issue

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The ethics of climate action

With destructive planning deregulation now on the cards, planners are faced with the most important ethical choices of their careers, says Hugh Ellis

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July-August 2022 issue

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Local Plans and net-zero objectives

Hugh Ellis on why, despite a recent Planning Inspectorate decision, the pursuit of radical carbon emissions reductions through Local Plans is lawful and supported by national policy

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‘Localism’ and the varied practices of community activism

Programmes to support local initiative and participation must recognise the social, economic and environmental particulars of individual localities—and this calls for experimentation and learning from local experience and a wider re-think of the relationship between government and civil society, says Patsy Healey

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May-June 2022 issue

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The Planning Exchange – a piece of history

Former Director Tony Burton reflects on the history and achievements of the Planning Exchange, which operated between 1972 and 2002 – with contributions from Linda Houston, Peter Roberts and Ian Watson

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Solutions hiding in plain sight — the potential of England’s Green Belts

Julia Thrift argues that, for the first time in a generation, there is a realistic chance to radically re-think the purpose of England’s Green Belts and improve their accessibility, quality and benefits for people, the environment and the economy – and that multiple government policy objectives would be delivered by doing so and that the key funding and financial incentives required are already in place

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March-April 2022 issue

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Communities for Ukraine

Lee Shostak sets out how the TCPA could play a central role in welcoming refugees to communities across the UK

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Assessing the Levelling up White Paper

Tim Marshall looks at the ideological and policy approaches of the Levelling Up White Paper and considers the prospects for progress on delivering greater fairness and equality across the country

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Seeds to solutions

Pam Warhurst explains why the small local actions of groups in the Incredible Edible network can make a huge difference to our response to many of the major global issues that we face

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January-February 2022 issue

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Developer contributions for affordable homes and infrastructure — Anglo-Scottish comparisons and lessons. Part one: Scotland

In the first part of a two-part article on developer contributions for affordable housing and infrastructure in England and Scotland, Fanny Blanc, John Boyle, Tony Crook, Kath Scanlon, Stefano Smith and Christine Whitehead look at the workings of the current Scottish system

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The campaign for healthy homes — making it happen

Fiona Howie introduces the Special Section on the campaign to secure the delivery of all homes against a rigorous set of Healthy Homes Principles

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November/December 2021 issue

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Development land ownership – the crucial key

The apparently never-ending process of planning reform fails to address land ownership, the fundamental component in the successful delivery of large-scale development, says John Walker

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September/October 2021 issue

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Planning reform – a ‘tetralogue’

A debate between participants Ben Southwood, Rosie Pearson, Ed Shepherd and John Myers

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July/August 2021 issue

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Time & Tide

The failure of the newly revised National Planning Policy Framework to prioritise climate change is a betrayal of our collective future, say Hugh Ellis and Jessica Fieth

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Off the Fence

The loud and well resourced opponents of planning, and particularly the 1947 settlement, are misreading the politics of planning reform, says David Lock

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May/June 2021 issue

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Housing and health – connections, tensions, and deregulatory consequences

Based on his Harveian Society of London lecture, delivered in April 2021, Nick Raynsford reviews the history of our understanding of the connections between ill-health and bad housing conditions, and the unintended and damaging consequences of a conviction that deregulation is in itself a good thing

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The spirit of ’47

The life of the 1947 planning settlement in England is moving quietly to a close, and with it a great pillar of the post-war welfare state is being extinguished, says Hugh Ellis

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