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Project Reports

TCPA Project Reports

The range and depth of the TCPA's policy work, research and projects can be highlighted by the publications available for download. These include:

The TCPA's cross-party Commission on the 'Connecting England - Future Development Needs and Priorities of England', chaired by Peter Hetherington
'Unlocking Public Land Supply for Future Housing', a TCPA report supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and prepared with Entec UK
A discussion paper 'Mind the Gap - Housing Supply in a Cold Climate' by David Pretty CBE and Paul Hackett for the Smith Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and published by the TCPA
'Permission to Plan' by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the TCPA
'Planning for the upturn – developing in the downturn' -a TCPA action agenda
'Policy Analysis of Housing and Planning Reform' - a TCPA analysis report supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
'New and novel household projections for England with a 2008 base' - a TCPA Tomorrow Series paper by Alan Homans with Christine Whitehead, supported by the Lady Margaret Osborn Patterson Trust
'Re-imagining Garden Cities for the 21st Century' - a report on re-discovering our planning heritage to build the high quality, inclusive and sustainable new communities of the future, supported by Land Securities.
'The Lie of the Land!' Executive Summary - published in October 2012, this report is part of the Reconstructing England Inquiry and focuses on the need for a spatial framework in which to understand and manage change to plan for a more prosperous nation with environmental and social justice at its heart.