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  • TCPA Annual Conference 2025: the purpose of planning

    Secure your place at our Annual Conference, taking place in London on 27 November. Join us to explore the transformational potential of the planning system.

  • Child-friendly places: case studies from England, Scotland and Wales

    These case studies, developed by the TCPA with A Place in Childhood, highlight places and projects that are meaningfully responding to the rights, needs and voices of children and young people in the built environment.

  • 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.

  • 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

    Our blog series explores each of the 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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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.

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New Towns: Time to trust the process?  

On Sunday 28 September the Government published its initial response to the work of the New Towns Taskforce. The Final…

New Towns
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Katy Lock, TCPA

Six lessons from child-friendly places

In this guest blog, Dr Jenny Wood and Anna Gaffney from A Place in Childhood share six lessons they’ve learnt…

Children and Young People
Guest blog
TCPA

TCPA response to New Towns Taskforce report

Responding to the New Towns publications today, the chief executive of the Town and Country Planning Association, Fiona Howie, said:…

New Towns
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