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Posts
- ‘A problem shared is a problem half-solved’
- ‘It’s time for a new philosophy of planning – ‘civic art'', says TCPA
- 'Ripping up the system won’t build the homes we need' – TCPA responds to 'Planning for the Future' White Paper
- 80% of shops on high streets could be lost to PDRs
- A brief history of the role of women in the first twenty years of the Garden City movement
- A Quick-Fire Response to the Queen’s Speech
- A skills revolution to create the healthy, well-designed places of the future
- Achieving a healthy green recovery – the essential role of green infrastructure
- Back to the future
- Belfast – a peaceful path to real reform
- Beyond beauty: the case for co-creation and Civic Art
- Bringing the Healthy Homes debate to the centre of British democracy
- Can historic buildings lead the fight against climate change?
- Change can rebuild trust with communities
- Delivering new Garden Cities with sustainable transport at their core
- Democracy is a non-negotiable part of planning
- English planning’s darkest hour?
- Fairness in Planning?
- Finding the Forgotten Pioneers
- From the wrong questions to the right answers
- Further expansion of permitted development rights is not the way to build the homes we need
- Government announces strategy for new generation of garden communities
- Government backs slum housing in major setback for town and city centres
- Government must plan for zero-carbon new communities
- Growth ambition must be backed by a robust process and commitment to quality
- Happy Birthday Ebenezer!
- Health is made at home; why we need a Healthy Homes Act
- Healthy Housing: A life or death issue
- How the healthy homes approach might be the answer to our planning problems
- How to fix the planning provisions of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
- How to Plan for Social Justice
- Icons, Tears and Hope in Barrow Hill
- Improving peace and quiet at home with sound acoustic design
- In support of the Healthy Homes Bill
- In the zone?
- Initial TCPA response to MHCLG's NPPF and National Model Design Code proposals
- Introducing the TCPA’s new strategy for 2021 to 2025
- Is this the end for democratic planning?
- Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn “A quiet warrior but a warrior none the less”
- Land-mark Publication Reveals the Forgotten Hope of the New Towns
- Landworker
- Last chance for action on climate change
- Last chance to unite on climate action
- Lessons from Cranbrook – 10 years on
- Lifting the lockdown: Clean air and safer, more accessible green space must become the new normal in a post-lockdown world
- Light blue touch paper and retire
- Local planning authorities need more support to plan for resilient communities
- Loss of skills and power: is local government critically unprepared for the climate crisis?
- Lost Community Voices
- National Housing Federation backs TCPA’s Healthy Homes Act campaign
- New Garden Cities must have sustainable transport at their core, argues the TCPA.
- North Essex decision provides moment for reflection on Government’s ‘Garden Communities’ programme
- One of the most important icons of Britain’s working-class heritage is under threat
- Planning for people and planet: Quietly revolutionary ideas from practice
- Planning for the Future – zonal planning and its impact on our wildlife
- Planning needs to be central to the levelling up agenda
- Planning reform must increase, not hinder, the supply of genuinely affordable homes
- Press Release: ‘Make every planning decision matter on climate change’
- Press release: 98% of councils say new development does not meet affordable housing policy
- Press release: APPG calls on Government to put New Towns centre stage in Budget
- Press release: Boost of Planning Aid for London to help people influence planning
- Press release: Budget fails to deliver the powers and funding councils need to tackle the housing crisis
- Press release: Councils warn that permitted development a risk to health and wellbeing
- Press release: Expansion of permitted development is a threat to vulnerable people
- Press release: Former housing minister calls for transformation of English planning
- Press release: Free planning advice service for Londoners launches online information hub
- Press release: Government must radically change planning policy to deal with climate change
- Press release: Government puts quality, design and stewardship at heart of new towns legislation update
- Press release: London councils not doing enough to tackle poverty and inequality
- Press release: Major planning bodies unite to tackle climate change
- Press release: New All-Party Parliamentary Group launched to shine political spotlight on growth opportunities in new towns
- Press Release: New Towns APPG Reinstated
- Press release: NPPF fails to deliver for those most in need
- Press Release: Planning for the climate crisis is vital to our survival
- Press release: Planning system failing people in greatest need, report finds
- Press release: Raynsford Review of Planning final report published
- Press release: TCPA calls for a Healthy Homes Act to tackle concerns over poor-quality housing
- Press release: TCPA comments on Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission report
- Press release: TCPA responds to 2019 general election result
- Press release: TCPA responds to government's £9m fund for vertical housing extensions
- Press release: TCPA responds to Labour's commitment to scrapping PDR
- Press release: TCPA responds to the publication of Living with Beauty
- Press release: TCPA welcomes government’s recommitment Garden City Principles and climate change in NPPF
- Press release: TCPA welcomes new chief executive
- Press release: Updated planning framework is key test of government's commitment to affordable housing
- Principles for planning reform
- Putting flood risk at the heart of planning
- Rebuilding trust with honesty
- Rebuilding Trust?
- Resource launched on addressing flood risk through the planning system
- Rising to the climate change challenge: The role of housing and planning within local councils
- Shaping the future – from garden cities to new environmentalism
- Shouldn’t we get the homes we need, not just what we’re given?
- Staying indoors during COVID-19: why the quality of our homes matters more than ever
- TCPA appointed to create guidance for Healthy New Towns
- TCPA Chair writes to Prime Minister to voice concerns that extension of permitted development rights risks creating ‘slums of the future’
- TCPA responds to Minister's 'Building Beautiful Places' plan
- TCPA responds to new legislation extending permitted development rights
- TCPA responds to Prime Minister's ten-point climate plan
- TCPA Responds to Queen’s Speech
- TCPA Responds to Queen's Speech
- TCPA statement on government 'development corporation consultation' and capacity funding
- TCPA writes to MHCLG over NPPF concerns
- TCPA Writes to Prime Minister Ahead of Planning White Paper
- Tens of thousands of new homes have legally bypassed the planning system in England since 2013
- The 20-minute neighbourhood – a way to support healthier, active and prosperous communities?
- The case for a patient approach to creating communities
- The City of the Future: An Urban Design Competition
- The climate implications of COVID-19 – short-term standstill, long-term change?
- The end of the affair
- The Fight for the Soul of the Planner
- The housing and climate crises can be tackled together
- The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill: a decisive shift of power to Whitehall.
- The Planning Inspectorate’s assault on an exemplary Net Zero planning policy fuels the climate crisis
- The Planning White Paper and that morning after feeling
- The Planning White Paper, an opportunity for real change?
- The question of public trust: blogs
- The science and art of strategic planning
- The TCPA responds to Prime Minister’s ‘Build, build, build’ announcements
- The Wrong Answers to the Wrong Questions: Countering the misconceptions driving the Government’s planning reform agenda
- This is the way
- Vlog: What’s left of the British Utopian Tradition
- We must share the uplift in land values to build better homes and local infrastructure
- What a planner might learn from the Black Lives Matter movement
- When the shouting stops
- Young people locked out of changes to their neighbourhood
Collections
- Campaign for Healthy Homes
- Campaigning for new Garden Cities
- Climate webinars
- Garden City Standards for the 21st Century: Practical Guides for Creating Successful New Communities
- Green Cities Webinar Series
- Green Infrastructure Partnership
- Green infrastructure standards conference – July 2021
- Helpful Green Infrastructure Resources
- Long-term stewardship
- Long-term stewardship
- Other guidance for delivering new Garden Cities
- PERFECT
- Research on Garden Cities and New Towns
- Sir Frederic J. Osborn Memorial Lecture
- The 20-minute neighbourhood
- Town and Country Planning Journal
- Using health evidence to inform planning
Resources
Art and Planning
- Case studies
- Civic Art: the renewed philosophy of town planning
- Good Practice Guide for Improving Culture, Arts and Sporting Opportunities through Planning
- Guide 6: I’d Love to Live There! Planning for Culture and the Arts
- Re:Place – Reconnecting Arts & Planning
- TCPA Performance Pieces
- That word art! Putting art back into planning – Guide for councils
- Two Tea Bags to Utopia
Climate Change
- ‘Future insurance cover in urban areas’ – Katherine Greig, Flood Re
- ‘Rural and upland issues and examples of good practice’ – Simon Dart, Environment Agency
- ‘Successful SuDS schemes’ – John Rumble, Hertfordshire County Council
- A Crisis of Place: Are we delivering sustainable development through local plans?
- Building a safer future: a guide for communities on the planning system and flood risk
- Building blocks for the relationship between the planning system and the changing climate
- Green Cities UK brochure
- Green spaces for people and wellbeing
- Guide 13: Sustainable Transport
- Guide 4: Masterplanning for net-zero energy
- How the natural environment can help combat climate change
- Joint Statement: Planning for the climate crisis
- Making places greener – practical tools and insights (Part I)
- Making Places Greener – practical tools and insights (part 2)
- Neighbourhood planning in a climate emergency
- Planning for Climate Change – the adaptation challenge
- Planning for climate change, law and policy
- Planning for flood risk in England
- Planning for the climate challenge? Understanding the performance of English local plans
- Resilience Development Corporations
- Rising to the climate change challenge: The role of housing and planning within local councils
- Rising to the Climate Crisis: A Guide for Local Authorities on Planning for Climate Change
- Should communities have a right to green space?
- TCPA and CSE joint response to the Planning White Paper – ‘Why the Planning System needs to be at the heart of delivering the UK’s Climate Change targets’
- The Climate Crisis – a guide for local authorities on planning for climate change
- The outlook for green infrastructure in Great Britain post-BREXIT
- The Sixth Carbon Budget (Climate Change Committee)
- UK Climate Risk
Garden Cities
- Built Today, Treasured Tomorrow: A practical guide to long-term stewardship
- Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs today: a Guide for councils
- Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today: policies, practices, partnerships and model approaches – a report of the garden cities and suburbs expert group
- Garden Cities Myth-Buster
- Garden Cities Symposium
- Guide 1: Locating and Consenting New Garden Cities
- Guide 10: ‘Edible’ Garden Cities
- Guide 11: People, Planning and Power
- Guide 12: Modern Methods of Construction
- Guide 13: Sustainable Transport
- Guide 14: Building climate resilient large-scale new communities
- Guide 2: Finance and Delivery
- Guide 3: Design and Masterplanning
- Guide 4: Masterplanning for net-zero energy
- Guide 5: Homes for All
- Guide 6: I’d Love to Live There! Planning for Culture and the Arts
- Guide 7: Planning for Green and Prosperous Places
- Guide 8: Creating Health-Promoting Environments
- Guide 9: Long-Term Stewardship
- Health and Garden Cities, a TCPA ‘Tomorrow Series’ paper
- How good could it be?: A guide to building better places
- Re-imagining Garden Cities for the 21st Century
- Stage 1: An Introduction to the UK’s New Towns and Garden Cities
- Stage 2 Report: Lessons for delivering a new generation of garden cities
- TCPA Briefing Paper 50: Putting Garden Cities at the Heart of the Housing and Planning Bill
- The Art of Building a Garden City – Garden City Standards for the 21st Century
- The Forgotten Pioneers: Celebrating the Women of the Garden City Movement
- The Garden City Opportunity – A Guide for Councils
- The Heart of the Matter: emerging lessons in long-term stewardship
- Understanding Garden Villages
Garden Cities and New Towns
- A new future for New Towns – Lessons from the TCPA New Towns Network
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on New Towns
- Art and Planning Strategy
- Best practice in urban extensions and new settlements-a report on emerging good practice
- Building Successful New Communities
- Built Today, Treasured Tomorrow: A practical guide to long-term stewardship
- Case studies
- Celebrating 70 Years of the New Towns Act
- Civic Art: the renewed philosophy of town planning
- Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs today: a Guide for councils
- Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today: policies, practices, partnerships and model approaches – a report of the garden cities and suburbs expert group
- Delivering new communities: A Technical Guide to Project and Programme Management for Local Authorities
- Funding opportunities for new communities
- Garden Cities Myth-Buster
- Garden Cities Symposium
- Good Practice Guide for Improving Culture, Arts and Sporting Opportunities through Planning
- Green spaces for people and wellbeing
- Guide 1: Locating and Consenting New Garden Cities
- Guide 10: ‘Edible’ Garden Cities
- Guide 11: People, Planning and Power
- Guide 12: Modern Methods of Construction
- Guide 13: Sustainable Transport
- Guide 14: Building climate resilient large-scale new communities
- Guide 2: Finance and Delivery
- Guide 3: Design and Masterplanning
- Guide 4: Masterplanning for net-zero energy
- Guide 5: Homes for All
- Guide 6: I’d Love to Live There! Planning for Culture and the Arts
- Guide 7: Planning for Green and Prosperous Places
- Guide 8: Creating Health-Promoting Environments
- Guide 9: Long-Term Stewardship
- Health and Garden Cities, a TCPA ‘Tomorrow Series’ paper
- How good could it be?: A guide to building better places
- How the natural environment can help combat climate change
- Land value capture and infrastructure delivery through SLICs
- Making places greener – practical tools and insights (Part I)
- Making Places Greener – practical tools and insights (part 2)
- New Towns Act 2015?
- Nothing gained by overcrowding!
- Other guidance for councils and delivery partners
- Re-imagining Garden Cities for the 21st Century
- Re:Place – Reconnecting Arts & Planning
- Rising to the climate change challenge: The role of housing and planning within local councils
- Should communities have a right to green space?
- Stage 1: An Introduction to the UK’s New Towns and Garden Cities
- Stage 2 Report: Lessons for delivering a new generation of garden cities
- TCPA Briefing Paper 50: Putting Garden Cities at the Heart of the Housing and Planning Bill
- TCPA New Towns Network
- TCPA Online Study Tour: Harlow – Pram Town to Garden Town?
- TCPA Online Study Tour: Milton Keynes – ‘Building Britain’s Newest City’
- TCPA Performance Pieces
- That word art! Putting art back into planning – Guide for councils
- The Art of Building a Garden City – Garden City Standards for the 21st Century
- The Forgotten Pioneers: Celebrating the Women of the Garden City Movement
- The Garden City Opportunity – A Guide for Councils
- The Heart of the Matter: emerging lessons in long-term stewardship
- The outlook for green infrastructure in Great Britain post-BREXIT
- Tomorrow 125 Interim Report
- Tomorrow 125 website
- Two Tea Bags to Utopia
- Understanding Garden Villages
- Unlocking the potential of large-scale new communities
Healthy Place-making
- 20-Minute Neighbourhoods: The vital role of data in creating complete, compact and connected places
- Active Design
- Active Travel Toolbox
- Air Quality Standards
- Belfast Healthy Cities ‘Reuniting Planning and Health’ capacity building resource
- Blogs in support of the Healthy Homes Act
- Building Safety Bill, Parliamentary Briefings
- Building the Foundations: tackling obesity through planning and development
- Delivering Sustainable Healthy Homes and Communities in Northern Ireland
- Developers and Wellbeing Project
- Developing a healthy planning principles framework
- Embedding health and wellbeing in neighbourhood plans
- Framework for a healthy places supplementary planning document (SPD)
- Guide to creating a technical research paper on ageing well
- Health impact assessments in spatial planning – a guide for local authority public health and planning teams
- Healthy Homes Act – Special Journal Edition
- Healthy Homes Act logo
- Healthy Homes Campaign- Updates
- Healthy Homes Principles
- Healthy Streets
- Healthy weight environments: using the planning system (2021)
- Improving Access to Green Spaces – A New Review for 2020
- Introducing 20 minute neighbourhoods in England’ a talk for Bristol Civic Society
- Introducing 20-Minute Neighbourhoods
- No place for place-making – the impacts of permitted development rights on place-making, and what they tell us about the government’s planning reforms
- Our Fragile High Streets – Death by Permitted Development Rights?
- Place and wellbeing: integrating land use planning and public health in Scotland
- Planning for health and well-being in Wales
- Planning for Walking Toolkit
- Planning Healthy-weight environments
- Planning healthy-weight environments – a TCPA reuniting health with planning project
- Planning Healthy-Weight Environments – Six Elements
- Public Health in Planning: good practice guide
- Putting Health into Place
- Reuniting health with planning: How planning and public health practitioners can work together to implement health and planning reforms in England
- Reuniting health with planning: Planning healthier places report
- School Superzones (2021)
- Securing constructive collaboration and consensus for planning healthy developments
- Spatial Planning for Health
- Spatial planning for health guide
- TCPA healthy place making publications
- TCPA Local Authority Briefing
- The 20-Minute Neighbourhood
- The 20-Minute Neighbourhood: learning from Down Under
- The campaign for healthy homes: making it happen – Special Journal Edition
- The Healthy Homes Bill
- The State of the Union: Reuniting health with planning in promoting healthy communities
- Town & Country Planning #healthyplanning Special Edition Journal
- Town & Country Planning Journal Special Edition ‘Reuniting Health with Planning’
- Useful healthy place-making resources
New Communities Group
New Towns
- A new future for New Towns – Lessons from the TCPA New Towns Network
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on New Towns
- Built Today, Treasured Tomorrow: A practical guide to long-term stewardship
- New Towns Act 2015?
- Stage 1: An Introduction to the UK’s New Towns and Garden Cities
- TCPA New Towns Network
- TCPA Online Study Tour: Harlow – Pram Town to Garden Town?
- TCPA Online Study Tour: Milton Keynes – ‘Building Britain’s Newest City’
- The Heart of the Matter: emerging lessons in long-term stewardship
Parks and Green Infrastructure
- Building with Nature
- Expert paper: Green infrastructure and biodiversity
- Expert paper: Health, wealth and happiness
- Expert paper: Investment finance for green infrastructure
- Expert paper: Place-making and green infrastructure
- Expert paper: Planning for green infrastructure- the green space factor and learning from Europe
- Expert paper: What does good green infrastructure policy look like?
- Factsheet: Green infrastructure and biodiversity
- Factsheet: Green infrastructure and climate change
- Factsheet: Green infrastructure and food
- Factsheet: Green infrastructure and health
- Factsheet: Green infrastructure glossary
- Factsheet: Green roofs
- Funding sources for green infrastructure
- Green Cities UK brochure
- Green Flag Awards
- Green Infrastructure Events Calendar
- Green Infrastructure Partnership Newsletter
- Green Infrastructure Resource Library
- Guide 7: Planning for Green and Prosperous Places
- Health, Wealth and Happiness – the multiple benefits of green infrastructure Expert Paper
- Mainstreaming green infrastructure
- Managing grassland road verges
- The Green Space Factor and the Green Points System
- Town & Country Planning Journal Special Edition – Mainstreaming green infrastructure
- Walking in Urban Parks and Green Spaces
- Webinar: Biodiversity and environmental net gain: opportunities for delivering green infrastructure
- Webinar: Introduction to the Green Infrastructure Standards Framework
- Webinar: The role of green infrastructure in a healthy green recovery
Planning Reform
- Common Ground
- Community guide for responding to the White Paper
- Guide for responding to the draft NPPF
- Initial White Paper Analysis
- Levelling Up – the role of planning
- Planning reform – a ‘tetralogue’
- Planning White Paper FAQs
- Rising to the climate change challenge: The role of housing and planning within local councils
- TCPA Response to Proposed Changes to the NPPF and National Model Design Code
- TCPA Response to the Planning White Paper Consultation
- The Raynsford Review ‘One Year On’
- The Raynsford Review of Planning
- The Right Answers to the Right Questions
- The Wrong Answers to the Wrong Questions
