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New guidance launched to help councils secure affordable homes

New resource signposting councils to toolkits, evidence and case studies to help them to secure affordable homesRead 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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TCPA launches review of housing and planning alongside former minister Nick Raysnford

The TCPA is launching a review of housing and planning alongside a task force of experts in policy, law, planning practice and public participation.

TCPA Annual Conference 2017: Better people, better places

Tickets are now available for the Town and Country Planning Association Annual Conference 2017.

Transforming planning: an agenda for social justice

The tragedy at Grenfell Tower and what must happen next.

Land of Promise - From Morris to Milton Keynes

Join us at MK City Fest to celebrate International New Towns Day 2017 with an evening of music, film and spoken word celebrating the radical voices of the past that inspired the New Towns movement and beyond.

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.

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 the Town & Country Planning.