Green Infrastructure: delivering for climate, people and nature
Sophie Jones, Communications and Learning Manager at Building with Nature, shows how planners can translate COP27 and COP15 commitments into…
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Simply Madness
Don’t let the Cumbrian coal mine disaster define our response to the climate crisis I cannot be alone in feeling…
Levelling up in practice: Thamesmead
Levelling up is ambitious in scope, and laudable in the aim of reducing inequality, creating opportunity, and increasing prosperity across…
After the Truss party hangover, the cold reality of the Levelling Up Bill
Surrealism, like satire, only works if there is an orthodox reality to react against. The problem we face in plotting…
Making our homes fit for the future – E.ON
By Jack Fildew There are three big numbers that should shock you when we talk about Britain’s housing stock. 90%…
TCPA Responds to Prime Minister’s speech at CPC 2022
TCPA Chief Executive Fiona Howie has responded to the Prime Minister Liz Truss’ speech at Conservative Party Conference. She said:…
The zombie economics of investment zones
The rush to invite expressions of interest for Investment Zones in the next two weeks resurrects the zonal planning agenda…
Creating town centres in new communities
In July, the TCPA hosted its first in-person seminar for our New Communities Group since the pandemic on ‘Creating town…
The Levelling Up Bill: Silencing the voices of local people?
The Levelling up and Regeneration Bill will end its committee stage in the House of Commons in late October. With…
The Planning Inspectorate’s assault on an exemplary Net Zero planning policy fuels the climate crisis
There has been disbelief and despair at the Planning Inspectorate’s (PINS’) decision to remove critical climate targets from the proposed…
Putting flood risk at the heart of planning
Each person’s health, prospects and happiness are impacted hugely by the place in which they live. The very first planning…
Bringing the Healthy Homes debate to the centre of British democracy
Parliamentary campaign events can be conflicting affairs. And, as a general rule of thumb, the more meaningful and successful they…
Lessons from Cranbrook – 10 years on
The TCPA New Communities Group’s first in person site visit since 2019 recently took place in Cranbrook, East Devon. The…
How to fix the planning provisions of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which will have its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday 8…
The City of the Future: An Urban Design Competition
The Take Back the City coalition has launched a competition open to all architects, planners and urban designers to present…
Resource launched on addressing flood risk through the planning system
The Town & Country Planning Association and the Environment Agency launch a new resource on addressing flood risk through the…
Rising to the climate change challenge: The role of housing and planning within local councils
A report by the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE), researched and written by the Town and Country Planning Association…
This is the way
Creating 20-minute neighbourhoods offers many benefits – but how do we get the idea off the page, and into our…
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill: a decisive shift of power to Whitehall.
The publication of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill[1] finally allows us to take stock of what English planning will…
A Quick-Fire Response to the Queen’s Speech
We are still waiting for the full details of the planning reform package so this is just a quick reaction…
TCPA Responds to Queen’s Speech
Offering an initial response to the Queen’s Speech, TCPA Chief Executive Fiona Howie said: The planning system will be central…
Icons, Tears and Hope in Barrow Hill
TCPA Policy Director, Hugh Ellis, reflects on the campaign to save St Andrew’s Church, Barrow Hill
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…
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.…
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…
