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Back to the future

How the Garden City ideal is driving a new beginning for the planning movement.TCPA Policy Director reflects on the first…

Blog
Hugh Ellis

Belfast – a peaceful path to real reform

The TCPA was founded by those who valued peace and cooperation over violent conflict. Ebenezer Howard’s political gamble was to…

Blog
Hugh Ellis

Landworker

We are reaching a pivotal moment, a crunch time for food security in a UK which produces barely 60% of…

Guest blog
Peter Hetherington

Planning needs to be central to the levelling up agenda

Levelling up will fall flat on its face if the Government persists with its attack on the town planning system.ย ย A…

Guest blog
Bob Colenutt, Janice Morphet, Michael Edwards, Naomi Luhde-Thompson, Tim Marshall

80% of shops on high streets could be lost to PDRs

Our fragile high streets: Death by permitted development rights? The TCPA publishes research exposing risk to high street posed by…

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TCPA

English planningโ€™s darkest hour?

The failure of the new National Planning Policy Framework to prioritise climate change is a betrayal of our collective future.…

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Hugh Ellis
Poor quality housing โ€“ affecting both new builds and conversions โ€“ is a major cause of claims. In this guest blog, Jennifer Amphlett explains why Zurich is supporting the Healthy Homes Campaign.

When the shouting stops

Consensus not culture war is our only hope of building the homes we need. There’s been a seismic change in…

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Hugh Ellis