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SUMMARY:TCPA Annual Conference 2025: The purpose of planning
DESCRIPTION:The Westminster government has embarked on what it has referred to as the biggest changes to English planning in a generation. This has been motivated by the government’s desire to deliver its economic growth mission\, and a target of 1.5m new homes.   \n\n\n\nPlanning has also been described by some\, rather mischievously\, as a ‘system without a purpose’. But many\, including the TCPA\, argue that the planning system can be transformational. So\, what should the purpose of the planning system be? What is the role of local democracy and communities in planning? And how can the tension between economic growth and development and protecting the environment be managed?   \n\n\n\nThe final session will look at planning reform\, including ongoing legislative changes and implementation of previous initiatives. In this session we will explore how planners and plan-makers can move forwards over the next year in spite of uncertainty. \n\n\n\nWe are grateful for the support of Greenbelt Group and LDA Design. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 1: The big picture (Arrivals from 10am for 10:30am start)\n\n\n\n\n10:00-10:30 Registration and Networking10:30 Welcome and introduction from the ChairAndrew Pritchard\, TCPA Chair10:35Panel 1: What is the purpose of planning?Frazer Osment\, LDA Design Rose Grayston\, Independent AdvisorYvonne Rydin\, UCLFollowed by panel discussion and audience Q&A11:25Case Study Session 1: Communities as an essential ingredient in planning and sustainable developmentDeveloping Community-led development at scale in Frome – the Mayday Saxonvale project Paul Oster\, Director\, MaydayAudience Q&A 11:50Case study session 2: Managing nature recovery and green spaces for all Managing green spaces for long-term successRobin Waddell\, Greenbelt GroupDelivering the Enfield Chase Landscape Recovery Programme\, a DEFRA pilot for environmental land managementIan Russell\, Principal Watercourses Engineer\, Enfield CouncilPublishing a front runner local nature recovery strategy – lessons from NorthamptonshireAndra Stopforth\, BNG and LNRS Lead Officer\, North Northamptonshire CouncilAudience Q&A 12:30-13:25 Lunch and networking \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2: Planning for the environment (1:30pm)\n\n\n\n\nThe government has repeatedly argued that the environment has been a barrier to its aims for economic growth. Nature recovery and climate adaptation are at the forefront of government policy frameworks\, so\, how can planning and development manage growth while protecting the environment in the long-term? This session explores these tensions at a national level. \n\n\n\n13:30 Welcome back from the ChairFiona Howie\, TCPA13:35Afternoon keynote: What the proposals in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill mean in practice for the environment and planningAlex Goodman KC\, Landmark Chambers14:00 Audience Q&A \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 3: Moving to the new system (2:10pm)\n\n\n\n\nFaced with multiple changes to English planning policy and structures\, many councils are wondering whether to delay their Local Plans. Our final session will consider the latest planning reform updates from the Chief Planner\, and then look in more detail at how local planning authorities should approach the next year\, with speakers from PAS and the Local Government Association setting out the challenges and opportunities. \n\n\n\n14:10Planning reform – an updateJoanna Averley\, Chief Planner\, MHCLG14:25Audience Q&A14:40Panel 2: How should local planning authorities approach the next year? Anna Rose\, Head of the Planning Advisory ServiceGeorgina Brightwell\, Senior Policy Advisor\, Housing Planning and Homelessness\, Local Government Association15:10Audience Q&A Chair: Hugh Ellis\, TCPA15:30 Final remarks from the Chair\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda subject to change \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook now to secure your place as places are limited – last few tickets remaining. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnnual TCPA memberships are £62 for standard\, £36 for concessions and £16 for students\, click here to find out more \n\n\n\nCheck to see if you are part of a New Communities Group (NCG) or TCPA member organisation \n\n\n\nConcessions tickets for community groups \n\n\n\nIf you are part of a small community group and could not afford to attend otherwise\, we have a number of concessionary tickets available at a reduced rate\, at the discretion of the TCPA. Please email jeanette.aves@tcpa.org.uk to see if you are eligible.
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tcpa-annual-conference-2025-the-purpose-of-planning-2/
LOCATION:Regents University\, London\, Regents University\, London
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SUMMARY:Planning for the Climate Crisis: A guide for local authorities (launch webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Join the TCPA and the RTPI for the launch of the fifth edition of their authoritative guidance on planning for climate change.   \n\n\n\nThe webinar will include: \n\n\n\n\nA case study from Winchester City Council\, reflecting on how they have worked to secure climate policies in their new local plan (currently at examination) \n\n\n\n\n\nAn overview of the climate guide and the policy issues it addresses \n\n\n\n\n\nUpdates from the TCPA and the RTPI on their work on this agenda. \n\n\n\n\nThis edition of the climate guide takes a new format\, being formed of a series of topic resources grouped under the headings of introduction and policy context\, climate mitigation\, and climate adaptation. These cover policy across the four devolved nations\, opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from buildings\, energy and transport\, and key adaptation issues for the built environment including overheating\, flood risk and coastal planning.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar is for: \n\n\n\nLocal authority planning officers\, councillors and practitioners interested in how planning can deliver climate action.  It will also be of interest to those working on development plan documents including spatial development strategies\, local plans\, and neighbourhood plans.   \n\n\n\nAgenda\n12:00-12:10 Introduction from the TCPA – Hugh Ellis\, Director of Policy 12:10-12:20 Championing the power of planning to address the climate crisis – Jan Bessell\, Vice President of the RTPI  12:20-12:30 Securing ambitious climate policies in the Winchester Local Plan – Adrian Fox\, Strategic Planning Manager\, Winchester City Council 12:30-12:40 An overview of the climate guide topic resources – Celia Davis\, Senior Projects and Policy Manager\, TCPA  12:40-12:55 Q&A 12:55-1:00  Acknowledgements and webinar close   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo  join the webinar\, register using this Zoom link:\n\n\n\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D3j6mFj9TEKwQqESbLyM1w \n\n\n\nWebinar ID: 874 4772 2428 
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/planning-for-the-climate-crisis-a-guide-for-local-authorities-launch/
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SUMMARY:Plants\, puddles and possibility: the importance of natural play for children
DESCRIPTION:From muddy knees to makeshift dens\, everyday playful encounters with nature are far more than a ‘nice to have’ in childhood. Evidence shows that contact with plants\, trees\, soil and water supports children’s physical health\, cognitive development\, mental wellbeing and social connectedness\, and can help close health gaps between more and less advantaged children. \n\n\n\nThis webinar will explore what we mean by “natural play” and explore the evidence on why it matters for children\, especially those growing up in increasingly dense\, risk-averse and urban environments.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at how green and “wild” spaces nurture creativity\, resilience and build connection to nature and how spaces and places for natural play can be created and managed. We’ll also reflect on some of the cultural and systemic barriers that developers\, planners\, landscape architects and play practitioners face\, from fears over safety and maintenance regimes\, to approaches to mess\, liability and supervision.  \n\n\n\nThe webinar is an invitation to join us in thinking about how to make sure plants\, puddles and possibility are part of every child’s everyday life. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAgenda and speakers (TBC) \n\n\n\n11:30Welcome and introductionJulia Thrift – Director Healthier place-making\, TCPA11:45Children and nature – a vital relationshipDr William Bird – Intelligent Health12:00Playful\, sustainable and inclusive landscapesand gardens – making it happenAndree Davies and Adam White – Davies White Landscape Architects12:20Natural\, playful spaces – learning from Better Place BradfordAdele Adams – Project Manager\, Better Place – Better Start Bradford12:40Q&AAll\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by:
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/plants-puddles-and-possibility-the-importance-of-natural-play-for-children/
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SUMMARY:One role\, multiple systems: public health and planning roles in Local Authorities
DESCRIPTION:Webinar \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOver the last few years there has been an increase in specialist healthy places roles in local government. These roles are often based in Public Health or Planning teams but work across systems as part of Health in All Policies approaches. Recent PHIRST research into these types of roles in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc  and East Sussex and Southampton demonstrate that they support efforts to promote healthy environments in local authority settings and are impactful agents of change\, influencing policy\, processes and people. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion with three people experienced in hybrid public health and planning roles in English local authorities\, sharing what it takes to make these posts happen and what they can deliver once in place. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be talking with: \n\n\n\nLourdes Madigasekera-Elliott Public Health Strategic Lead: Creating Healthy and Sustainable Places\, East Sussex County Council \n\n\n\nLourdes is the public health strategic lead for Creating Healthy Places. She is responsible for addressing the environmental determinants of health\, ecological public health\, getting health into place and embedding Health\, Environment and Sustainability in All Policies. Lourdes works to support population health management\, to address health inequalities\, social injustice\, and environmental protection. \n\n\n\nDr David McAleavey Creating Active and Healthy Places Lead\, Middlesbrough Council (Public Health South Tees) \n\n\n\nDr David McAleavey is a behavioural scientist and public health spatial planner integrating planning\, transport and public health across South Tees\, advancing whole‑systems approaches that embed physical activity\, Health in All Policies\, and healthier environments into spatial planning and local policy frameworks. \n\n\n\nKim Wilson MRTPI Public Health Principal – Built Environment\, Milton Keynes Council \n\n\n\nKim is a Public Health Principal specialising in Healthy Places and the Built Environment. She is a qualified town planner with over 30 years’ experience in Local Authority settings. Working in the shared Public Health Service for Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes\, Kim leads work to integrate public health evidence into a range of disciplines\, working across planning\, transport\, housing and environmental policy to support the creation of healthier\, more equitable\, and resilient places. \n\n\n\nThe webinar is aimed at anyone interested in enabling similar roles\, as well as people who might be interested in taking them up. The session will cover: how health and planning roles can emerge; place-based outcomes they’ve helped achieve (from policy influence to culture change); and challenges and opportunities moving forwards. \n\n\n\nThis event is being held in collaboration with the Health & Wellbeing in Planning Network which aims to support practitioners working in the area of promoting health through planning and the built environment.. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by:
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/one-role-multiple-systems-public-health-and-planning-roles-in-local-authorities/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Transport for New Communities
DESCRIPTION:The NPPF and Circular 01/2022 now provide for a positive\, vision-led approach to transport planning for new communities\, and this has only been strengthened in the recently published draft NPPF. \n\n\n\nThis webinar held on Zoom will look at these national policy shifts in transport development and new tools aiding in design and delivery. It will explore how planners can look at place connectivity for large scale development\, examine proposals in the draft NPPF that facilitate development around underutilised train stations\, and consider the role of vision-led transport planning when planning for new settlements. \n\n\n\nWe will be hearing from the Department for Transport\, as well as private and public sector planners delivering major new transport schemes to help unlock development. We’ll then be hearing about the TCPA’s guidance for local authorities on Planning for the Climate Crisis: Promoting sustainable transport through planning. \n\n\n\nImportant: This event is free for officers from the TCPA New Communities group\, with paid tickets also available. You can check if your authority is a member here: TCPA New Communities Group. \n\n\n\nThis is part of the TCPA New Communities Group programme of events. \n\n\n\nThis event is kindly supported by Rovia Transport Planning. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDraft agenda \n\n\n\nTimeSpeaker10:30Welcome from the Chair\, Catriona Riddell\, TCPA Vice Chair10:35Creating Connected Communities – Past Experiences and Future Changes David Bird\, Director\, Rovia Transport Planning and former founding Director of VectosRoger Flowerday\, Group Manager Local Plans and Strategic Development\, Hertfordshire County Council10:55Q&A11:15DfT’s Connectivity Tool Robert Singleton\, Head of Planning\, Department for Transport11:25TCPA Guide to Planning for the Climate Crisis: Promoting sustainable transport through planningCelia Davis\, Senior Policy and Project Manager\, TCPA11:35Q&A11:55NCG Update Lachlan Anderson-Frank\, Projects and Policy Manager\, TCPA12:00Close\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheck to see if you are part of a New Communities Group (NCG) member organisation \n\n\n\nAbout Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) Memberships
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/transport-for-new-communities/
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SUMMARY:Bringing young people together to make better places: a case study from PLACED on youth voice
DESCRIPTION:Webinar \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEngaging young people in planning brings insight into how places are used everyday. Their perspectives can highlight what supports\, or limits\, play\, movement\, safety and social connection in ways that are too often overlooked by adults. \n\n\n\nWhen done well\, engagement with children and young people is practical and purposeful\, allowing them to actively shape decisions rather than simply inform them. Youth engagement can lead to more inclusive\, well-used places that work better for everyone\, and ensures that children and young people feel recognised as part of the communities they live in. \n\n\n\nPLACED have been involving children and young people in the design of places since 2011. Their work with young people provides invaluable insight into the views of this key\, often underrepresented group\, but it also delivers significant social value through building confidence\, exploring career options and encouraging active citizenship. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar we will here from Jo Harrop\, PLACED Director about meaningful engagement\, a young person engaged with the PLACED Academy programme and Lily Dowse on PLACED’s recent work engaging over 200 young people to reimagine the town centres of Rochdale\, Middleton\, and Heywood. \n\n\n\nThis event supports the TCPA’s ongoing work on the rights\, needs and voices of children and young people in the built environment\, including case studies and guidance on embedding children and young people in planning policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by:
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/bringing-young-people-together-to-make-better-places-a-case-study-from-placed-on-youth-voice/
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SUMMARY:TCPA Summer Conference: Strategic planning for inclusive growth
DESCRIPTION:Pinsent Masons\, 30 Crown Pl\, Earl St\, London EC2A 4ES  \n\n\n\nAs England embarks on a transformative period of strategic spatial planning through Spatial Development Strategies (SDSs)\, the TCPA’s summer conference will bring together those working at the coalface who are beginning to develop strategic plans for their areas. \n\n\n\nGovernment continues to clarify the legislative and policy framework for subregional spatial development strategies against the backdrop of ongoing local government reorganisation. SDSs are designed to provide positive\, long-term spatial visions for investment\, new homes and infrastructure that align with economic\, social and environmental goals\, with clear duties embedded in the Planning and Infrastructure Act and Devolution Bill. \n\n\n\nFor some these will be seen as much needed growth strategies. But how do places make sure that growth is inclusive? And how do they meet their duties to have regard to health and health inequalities alongside sustainable development and climate resilience?   \n\n\n\nThis conference explores not only why SDSs are returning\, but how they can actively drive inclusive and sustainable growth – closing gaps between places\, improving health outcomes\, coordinating infrastructure\, and shaping long‑term spatial investment. It will provide vital insight to planning and placemaking officers and members in emerging and established strategic authorities to make ready and prepare for developing their Spatial Development Strategy by 2029. \n\n\n\nWe are grateful to our hosts and sponsors Pinsent Masons and Prior and Partners for supporting this event\, alongside the Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust.  \n\n\n\nWe want our events to be accessible\, welcoming and engaging for everyone. This includes supporting any access\, religious or dietary requirements. See the documents below for more details.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDraft Agenda   \n\n\n\nPlease note this agenda is subject to change.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSession 1: The return of strategic planning (Arrivals from 10am for 10:30am start+\n\n\n\n\n10:00–10:30 Arrivals and registration 10:30Introduction from Andrew Pritchard\, TCPA Chair10:40-11:40Session 1: This first session will set the scene and give an overview of the progress of universal strategic plan coverage by 2029. We will hear from MHCLG to clarify the legal duties under the Planning & Infrastructure Act 2025 and what this mean for SDSs as vehicles for inclusive\, sustainable growth. We will then hear what early work authorities can do to improve their readiness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2: Emerging approaches to inclusive growth (11:45am)+\n\n\n\n\n11:45 – 12:45Session 2: This session brings together senior policy and public health leaders to explore how different places are translating inclusive and sustainable growth principles into spatial priorities – using SDSs to integrate economic\, social\, environmental\, climate and health evidence into a strategic vision for their areas. This session will explore what SDSs should focus on and what is better left to local plans. It will also look at what can done to start the process. 12:45-1:30Lunch\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 3: Strategic housing growth in SDSs (1:30pm)+\n\n\n\n\n1:30 – 2:15Session 3: Many voices\, including the New Towns Taskforce have argued that planning for housing including large scale new communities would be easier if we had larger than local planning. What opportunities do strategic plans present against the future devolution of housing and funding powers\, and how do we make sure that new communities and wider housing strategies deliver inclusive growth? This panel discussion will consider large-scale urban extensions and new settlements and what specific approaches are needed to support the delivery of very large super strategic sites.2:15-2:30pmClosing remarks 2:30pmConference ends
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tcpa-summer-conference-strategic-planning-for-inclusive-growth/
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