Press releases

Press release: Garden Cities book offers blueprint for solving housing crisis

Press release: TCPA launches review of housing and planning led by former minister Nick Raynsford

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

TCPA responds to U.S. withdrawal from Paris climate agreeement

The TCPA responds to President Trump's announcement that the U.S. from the landmark Paris Agreement to combat climate change.Read more

UK's biggest green infrastructure knowledge base launched

The Green Infrastructure Partnership (GIP) has launched a free online database of almost 600 easy-to-digest green infrastructure publications.Read more

Research highlights desperate housing crisis with councils warning of 'severe' need for affordable homes

The TCPA and the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) have released a report which investigates housing issues across 166 local authorities, making 15 recommendations to the next government.Read more

TCPA offers guidance on manifesto pledges

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

Government commits to a new generation of new communities

TCPA responds to Housing White Paper commitment to updating the New Towns ActRead more

Critically underprepared?

New report finds local planning is failing the climate change testRead more

Secretary of State backs large scale housing growth

The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government showed his support for local councils driving the delivery of large scale development. Addressing a meeting of the TCPA New Communities Group, the Minister said housing was his “number one priority”.Read more

TCPA welcomes Housing White Paper announcement

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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.