Energy and Climate Change

Help give planners a leading role in the fight against climate change

Caroline Lucas MP has submitted an EDM asking MPs to recognise and debate the recent downgrading of the Climate Change Act (2008) in the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).Read more

Planning for Climate Change

The TCPA and RTPI have come together to produce a guide which helps planners, politicians and communities tackle climate change through the planning system.Read more

EPICURO Project

The EPICURO project is a two-year European funded project, started in 2017, to promote the sharing of good practices in urban prevention and facilitate the access to knowledge and expertise on the issue of climate change adaptation.Read more

Planning for the climate challenge

A 2016 study into climate change implementation in local spatial plans in EnglandRead more

A crisis of place

A crisis of place - Are we delivering sustainable development through local plans?Read more

Leadership for Energy and Planning

Helping local authorities to plan and deliver local sustainable energy solutions.Read more

Spatial Planning and Energy for Communities

Building the capacity of planners to plan and deliver sustainable energy solutionsRead more

Planning and climate change coalition

The PCCC works to ensure that the planning system makes a full contribution to meeting the climate change challenge.Read more

Latest

EPICURO Conference: Planning for Inclusive Local Resilience to Climate Change Impacts

Final conference of the European Partnership for Innovative Cities within an Urban Resilience Outlook (EPICURO) project to take place in central London. More details and registration to come soon.

New route for 'locally-led' New Towns agreed in Parliament

TCPA Annual Conference: 'A blueprint for a new planning system?'

Is it time to step back and reimagine the way we should be planning for a successful future for the nation? What might a new system look like? This conference will bring together policy makers, planners, developers, consultants, academics and community representatives to consider what needs to be done.

Government calls on 'locally-led' New Towns to adopt Garden City Principles

The Raynsford Review of Planning

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

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