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OS Open Greenspace – new, free map of all green spaces

Ordnance Survey has launched a map of all publicly accessible greenspaces.Read more

Creating great places for happy, healthy kids

Good design is critical for the well-being of children. How do we make sure that our modern habitats nurture and encourage our children, and what are the consequences if they don't?Read more

IFHP Belfast Urban Thinkers Campus: The City For Everyone

The TCPA is delighted to be participating in an Urban Thinkers Campus in Belfast (including a trip to Dublin), run by the International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP) to assist with the implementation of the UN Habitat's New Urban Agenda.Read more

Pan-European partnership helping communities prepare for disasters

Introducing TCPA's role in a new project on building resilience through prevention, and reflects on learning from European partners during the first project meeting in Vicenza.Read more

PERFECT timing for new green infrastructure project

A blog on a new TCPA led project funded by INTERREG Europe, about how to maximise the potential of green infrastructure to help create successful and resilient cities and regionsRead more

Health impact of the Housing White Paper

Taking a health perspective on proposals in the 2017 Housing White Paper and why health professionals should take notice.Read more

Building homes together

New report on case studies of local leadership and innovationRead more

White Paper must deliver great places not just housing numbers

New blog post on Garden Villages, the New Towns Act and the Housing White PaperRead more

Healthy planning – bringing together planners and public health practitioners

The launch event of the Town & Country Planning special edition on planning for health and practitioner seminar took place at the TCPA on 1 December 2016. Planners and public health practitioners from all over England came to listen to healthy planning specialists and discussed about the topic.Read more

Scotland's new town dilemma shared by England?

Insight into the challenges and opportunities facing the Scottish new towns, from a recent TCPA roundtable in Edinburgh.Read more

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Creating successful new communities through long-term stewardship

This half-day seminar will provide an opportunity to learn about different approaches to the long-term stewardship of community facilities and assets.

TCPA supporting the Healthy City Design 2017 International Congress

The TCPA is supporting this Congress on the 16-17 October 2017 at the Royal College of Physicians.

Join us at the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences

The TCPA will be hosting fringe events at this year's Labour and Conservative Party Conferences

External Event: The Art of Building a Garden City - MK Gallery

An MK Gallery Talk: The Art of Building a Garden City Presented by the Fred Roche Foundation

Garden City Principles

The Garden City principles are a distillation of the key elements that have made the Garden City model of development so successful, articulated for a 21st century context.

The Raynsford Review

A major review of housing and planning to make the system fairer, better resourced and capable of producing quality outcomes.

Publications

The TCPA's Reuniting Health with Planning initiative has four strands: capacity building, guidance, research and raising awareness. It has resulted in a number of publications in the form of planning guidance, more than 30 workshops with local authorities on healthy places, reports and special-edition journals of Town & Country Planning.