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The TCPA places great importance to social matters as generators of planning policy. It is specially concerned that the people should be well housed; that deliberate under-provision of housing whether in terms of its quantity or quality should not be tolerated for any reason; that present low annual rates of building should be increased to meet existing need, especially for social housing and for new needs arising from the projected growth in households and from rising space requirements in and around the home.
For over 100 years the TCPA has campaigned for housing for all that meets human needs and aspirations. That categorically does not mean, however, that it promotes very low-density housing or that it has ever done so. From the early garden cities to the post-Second World War new towns, the TCPA’s consistent ideal has been medium-density housing in planned settlements with a sense of community and good access to jobs, shops, schools, services, and transport. It has constantly resisted sprawling, unplanned, low-density 20th-century suburban development. It contrasts this with the more compact suburbs of earlier centuries, to which we need now to return.