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 support councils and communities with advice about planning healthier, more active environments and how to ensure 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 has 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.
Workshops
Healthy Local Plans and policies
We help 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.
Food environments
The TCPA is exploring how to support empowering food environments that enable people to make healthy choices.
Campaign for Healthy Homes
The campaign aims to transform the way that the built environment is regulated to ensure that all new homes promote the health and wellbeing of their residents.
20-minute neighbourhoods
Around the world there is growing interest in creating places in which most of people’s daily needs can be met within a short walk or cycle.
TCPA healthy place-making publications
A collection of the TCPA’s healthy place-making publications
Additional healthy place-making resources
A collection of helpful healthy place-making resources from external organisations
Resources
Keeping health in the plan
Keeping health in the plan: Rapid Participatory Stakeholder Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Workshops
A toolkit for local authority planning policy and public health teams in England
Guidance: Finance and delivery vehicles
With new towns higher up the agenda than they have been for decades, the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has published updated practical guidance to help local authorities understand how ambitious new communities can be delivered and paid for.
News & Blog
Join us for the Curious Cities Assembly 2026
Curious Cities Assembly 2026 is a new gathering of elected leaders, advocates and experts focused on making cities safer, healthier…
Pineapple for Healthy Homes – Announcing the 2026 Winner!
Farmstead Road in Lewisham has been announced as the winner for this year’s Pineapple for Healthy Homes. The Pineapple for…
The benefits of ‘blue spaces’ in healthy place-making
Jack Boreham explores how blue infrastructure can benefit people and nature Supporting wellbeing Evidence shows that what are sometimes known…