Policies

Building for the Future: The Role of County Councils in Meeting Housing Need

In this TCPA and CCN report we look at the important role county and unitary authorities are playing in meeting national housing need.Read more

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

Joint statement on Garden City principles in the NPPF

Joint statement calling on government not to remove its commitment to the Garden City principles from the NPPFRead more

Briefing on the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework

Building the future: the TCPA's manifesto for the 2017 general election

The TCPA reports on the challenges we face as a nation and what the next government must do to address Britain's housing crisis.Read more

Housing White Paper 2017

Read the TCPA's briefing on the Government's Housing White PaperRead more

Housing and Planning Act 2016

The TCPA published a briefing on the Housing and Planning Bill as it went through parliamentary committee stages during 2015-16 calling on the government to support the delivery of beautifully designed, environmentally resilient and socially inclusive new places. The Bill received Royal Assent on 12 May 2016 becoming the Housing and Planning Act.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.