Government must plan for zero-carbon new communities
The Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) is calling on Government to plan strategically for new zero carbon communities. Despite…
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A skills revolution to create the healthy, well-designed places of the future
In December 2020, the Place team at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) published Delivering design value: the…
Introducing the TCPA’s new strategy for 2021 to 2025
What the Town and Country Planning Association does is important. As you would expect, I am a firm believer in…
Happy Birthday Ebenezer!
Let’s celebrate with two tea bags and a slice of practical hope Today, 29th January, would have been Ebenezer Howard’s…
Initial TCPA response to MHCLG's NPPF and National Model Design Code proposals
The TCPA has offered an initial response to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s proposed changes to the…
Press release: Free planning advice service for Londoners launches online information hub
Town planning support service Planning Aid for London (PAL) has launched an online planning library to help members of the…
From the wrong questions to the right answers
Our society is facing a series of major crises related to the ways we use and develop land. The coronavirus…
The end of the affair
The social contract at the heart of planning is being broken: People and business will be the losers. The very…
The climate implications of COVID-19 – short-term standstill, long-term change?
While the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly a crisis, we are still in the throes of another – the climate crisis. Climate…
Further expansion of permitted development rights is not the way to build the homes we need
Following the end of the consultation of the Planning White Paper, the Government has now published a consultation on ‘more immediate…
Shaping the future – from garden cities to new environmentalism
The history of the Town and Country Planning Association is in essence a history of town planning in the UK…
TCPA responds to Prime Minister's ten-point climate plan
Fiona Howie, Chief Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association has responded to the Prime Minister’s ‘Ten Point Plan…
