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  • 21st Century New Towns

    What should a new town look and feel like? Our new pamphlet is designed to be a prompt for communities to create their own vision for future new towns.

  • A home to die for?

    One in ten people in the UK live in poor-quality housing. Our new photo booklet reveals the scale of the problem, but it also showcases solutions to the crisis of substandard homes.

  • Practical Hope

    We’ve added new case studies to our Practical Hope resource. Be inspired by these examples of community action from across the UK.

  • Restricting the appeal and availability of junk food in England: The role of local councils

    This report explores how amendments to planning policy and regulation could help councils to better support the health of their communities.

  • New Towns and Garden Cities

    The TCPA is campaigning for a new generation of New Towns based on modern Garden City Principles. Our campaigns are underpinned by research exploring lessons from the past and present.

  • Planning for Climate Change

    The TCPA has a strong track record in research, policy formulation and political influence on climate adaptation and mitigation in the context of spatial planning.

  • Long-term stewardship

    Long-term stewardship is a holistic approach to ensuring places can be looked after in perpetuity. This approach is at the heart of the Garden City model and has relevance for the creation of new and renewed communities at all scales.

  • Healthy Homes Principles

    Each month, our blog series explores one of 12 Healthy Homes Principles: a framework for ensuring better and more inclusive health outcomes in all new housing developments.

The Town and Country Planning Association

For over a hundred years, we have worked to challenge, inspire and support people to create healthy, sustainable and resilient places that are fair for everyone.

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Areas of work

The way that places are planned, designed, maintained and regenerated can help or hinder work to tackle health inequalities, climate change, and economic resilience. The TCPA works, therefore, on a wide range of topics: find out more about the work we do by exploring the themes below.

News & Blogs

Is this the end of democratic planning? 

The TCPA’s Director of Policy, Hugh Ellis, argues that the changes set out in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill risk…

Community Participation and Social Justice, Planning Reform
Blog
Hugh Ellis, TCPA

Osborn Research Assistant (New Towns and Garden Cities) 

Do you have a passion for helping to create healthy, sustainable and resilient places that are fair for everyone? We…

New Towns
News
TCPA

Learning from Cambridgeshire: Three key strategies at five sites 

From green corridors to subsidised car clubs, public art strategies to community living rooms, Jen Aves shares insights from our…

Garden Cities, Healthy Homes, Healthy Place-making, New Communities Group, New Towns
Blog
TCPA

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  • exclusive access to journals from 2005 to date
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  • discounts on events, training and books
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