Learning from Cambridgeshire: Three key strategies at five sites
From green corridors to subsidised car clubs, public art strategies to community living rooms, Jen Aves shares insights from our…
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Ensuring all homes have access to natural light
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes Principles that all new housing developments must…
Press release: Development taxes – funding the infrastructure needed to create healthy, affordable places
The current system of developer contributions is failing to capture the money needed to unlock affordable homes and pay for…
Challenges of Delivering Large Scale Housing Projects: Lessons from the TCPA’s New Communities Group
In the latest blog from our series on the next generation of New Towns, Lachlan Anderson-Frank MRTPI sets out some…
The TCPA is excited to launch our vision for 21st Century New Towns
Our new publication is a prompt to help communities express what they want to see from future new towns Where…
New Towns glory or Eco Towns dead end?
As the New Towns Taskforce reaches its final conclusions, success will depend on building a public consensus about inclusive growth,…
New Towns: the need for a strong vision
In the third blog from our series on the next generation of New Towns, Rowan Gilbert explains why there must…
Play parks are important, but doorstep play is critical
When was the last time you saw chalk on the pavement near your home? On the International Day of Play[1],…
Building homes that ensure safety from crime
The safety of our homes and neighbourhoods is a vital, if sometimes overlooked, determinant of health. Good urban planning and…
Paying for a new generation of New Towns – reflections from the past
In the second blog from our series on the next generation of New Towns, Hugh Ellis explores the issue of…
A new generation of New Towns – important but not a silver bullet
In the first blog from our series on the next generation of New Towns, Fiona Howie sets out the importance…
Why all new homes must minimise noise and light pollution
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes Principles that all new housing developments must…
Planning with purpose
Where’s the plan, the vision – the story, if you like – for England (and Britain)? It’s been a leading…
The economics of failure
It is a crucial moment for our collective survival. In this blog, first published in the March – April edition…
Thermal comfort for all homes
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes Principles that all new housing developments must…
Winners of The Pineapple for Healthy Homes announced
Launched in 2019 by The Developer in partnership with Design Council, The Pineapples awards are unique in seeking to celebrate…
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…
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…
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 places…
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…
Why all new homes must be climate resilient
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes Principles that all new housing developments must…
Raising the healthiest generation in history – report launch
Raising the healthiest generation in history: recommendations and an evidence review from the Levelling Up Committee inquiry into children, young…
Prioritise outdoor play to give children best start in life, finds new report
The government will fail to meet its aim to radically improve the health of children and young people unless its…
Zero carbon homes: the industry is setting the pace. It’s time for the government to catch up
Hope and a sense of purpose. These were the refreshing and much needed takeaways from this week’s parliamentary reception on Planning…
Reducing carbon emissions in all homes
To ensure better and more inclusive health outcomes, the TCPA has identified 12 Healthy Homes Principles that all new housing developments must…
Location, location, location: lessons from the past
Since the New Towns Taskforce was announced back in the summer, there has of course been a huge amount of…
Creative places: reflections from the Annual Osborn memorial event
Last night we were treated to live jazz and a spirited debate on the role of the creative industries in…
Budget 2024 – what are the housing commitments?
The autumn 2024 budget contains a whole raft of housing commitments. While it is unclear how many of these commitments…
