Healthy Housing: A life or death issue
Healthy housing is a life and death issue that goes well beyond fire. The Building Safety Bill is at risk…
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Press Release: New Towns APPG Reinstated
‘New Towns are special places’: Housing Minister welcomes cross-party Group set to explore a healthy future for the UK’s New Towns Marking the start of…
Back to the future
How the Garden City ideal is driving a new beginning for the planning movement. TCPA Policy Director reflects on the…
Press Release: ‘Make every planning decision matter on climate change’
For immediate release: ‘Make every planning decision matter on climate change’ says coalition of planning and environmental NGOs Following COP26,…
How the healthy homes approach might be the answer to our planning problems
Emily O’Brien, Green Party Councillor for Lewes District Council Cooperative Alliance This summer, like in many other areas – Lewes…
Planning for people and planet: Quietly revolutionary ideas from practice
Change is coming. It has to. Tackling the twin crises of climate breakdown and nature loss is the biggest challenge…
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…
Press Release: Planning for the climate crisis is vital to our survival
The Royal Town Planning Institute and the Town and Country Planning Association have today jointly launched vital new guidance on…
Landworker
We are reaching a pivotal moment, a crunch time for food security in a UK which produces barely 60% of…
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. A…
Achieving a healthy green recovery – the essential role of green infrastructure
The past 18 months have highlighted that parks and greenspace close to home have been critical in helping people deal…
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…
English planning’s darkest hour?
The failure of the new National Planning Policy Framework to prioritise climate change is a betrayal of our collective future.…
