Energy and Climate Change

Planning for Climate Change

This report provides guidance for tackling climate change through the planning system. Read more

EPICURO Project

This page includes outputs for the TCPA's European Partnership for Innovative Cities within an Urban Resilience Outlook (EPICURO) project Read more

Planning for the climate challenge

This report considers how climate change tools can be introduced into spatial plans in England. Read more

A crisis of place

This report considers whether sustainable development is being delivered through local plans. Read more

Leadership for Energy and Planning

This report considers how local authorities can plan and deliver local sustainable energy solutions. Read more

Spatial Planning and Energy for Communities

This report looks at how to build the capacity of planners to plan and deliver sustainable energy solutions Read more

Latest

TCPA Annual Conference - 'Facing the Future' - the implications for planning our places

The TCPA’s 2019 annual conference will focus on the implications of future change for planners and those involved in creating our environment.

Housing for a fairer society: the role of councils in ensuring stronger communities

This report considers the barriers to councils building more high-quality, affordable housing, making ten recommendations for government reform.

Blog: Shouldn’t we get the homes we need, not just what we’re given?

Andrew Shipley writes about the need for more accessible housing as part of our Healthy Homes Act blog series.

Press release: Councils warn that permitted development a risk to health and wellbeing

Councils across England are warning that homes created using permitted development rights are a potential threat to people’s health and wellbeing.

The Raynsford Review of Planning

Rt Hon Nick Raynsford's landmark review of the English planning system, commissioned by the TCPA.

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.

Guidance for delivering new Garden Cities

Guidance for creating 21st Century Garden Cities.

The Journal of the Town and Country Planning Association

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, reports and special-edition journals of Town & Country Planning.