Best Practice in Urban Extensions and New Settlements

The TCPA believes that the full range of planning solutions – urban regeneration, sustainable urban extensions or, where appropriate, new settlements – should be available to communities to choose from as they search for the most sustainable pattern of development locally. In 2007 TCPA produced a report looking at emerging good practice in new communities at a range of scales.

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Best Practice in Urban Extensions and New Settlements (2007)

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