The TCPA has long championed that the way places are planned, designed, built and managed has a significant influence over whether communities are able to live healthy lives. The built and natural environments are important determinants of health and shape health inequalities.
We can offer councils and communities advice about planning healthier, more active environments and ensuring that plans and policies help deliver public health objectives. Evidence shows that creating ‘complete, compact and connected’ neighbourhoods – otherwise known as 20-minute neighbourhoods – results in places that are healthier to live in and contribute to climate targets.
The TCPA have published a range of influential reports and practical guidance documents which can be found in our Resource library.
Contact
Please contact Gemma Hyde for further information.
The 20-minute neighbourhood
The TCPA is working in coalition with a range of partners to learn from places that already are implementing 20-minute neighbourhoods and supporting local authorities to create them in the context of the English planning system.
Healthy Homes Campaign
This campaign calls on government to adopt our Healthy Homes Bill, which would require all new homes and neighbourhoods to be of decent quality, and effectively outlaw those which undermine residents’ health and wellbeing.
Workshops
Healthy Local Plans and policies
The TCPA has extensive experience of helping councils use public health data to strengthen their Local Plans and policies to ensure new development supports good health for all. We can provide bespoke practical advice for your area.
TCPA healthy place-making publications
A collection of the TCPA’s healthy place-making publications
Useful healthy place-making resources
A collection of helpful healthy place-making resources from external organisations
Resources
Briefing for public health professionals on plan making reforms
This resource, aimed at those working in public health and health, outlines the TCPA’s significant concerns that in spite of the overwhelming evidence about the influence of planning on health, the Government's proposals for reforming local plan making fail to explain how health and well-being will be prioritised in local plans.
Read the full briefing below.
Expanding Permitted Development Rights
This response outlines why TCPA is strongly opposed to the radical deregulation of the planning system proposed in this Government consultation.
News & Blog
The fight for Healthy Homes will go on!
The government defeated Lord Nigel Crisp’s amendment to place a duty on the Secretary of State to promote Healthy Homes.…
Low traffic neighbourhoods: anti-car or pro-people?
Gemma Hyde picks apart the idea that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are ‘anti-car’.
Living Locally: The role of housing and planning within local councils
New report highlights that local living needs national backing: Despite clear evidence on the benefits of complete, compact and connected…
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