Garden Cities and New Towns

TCPA New Towns Network

The TCPA New Towns Network brings together local authorities where the UK's 32 New Towns are located to share experience through peer to peer learning and other activities Read more

Understanding Garden Villages

An introductory guide highlighting the key characteristics of historical 'model' and garden villages, to help inform the design and delivery of new garden villages today. Read more

The TCPA New Communities Group was established in 2009 by TCPA and the Department for Communities and Local Government. Its members are local authority planning departments and development corporations planning and delivering exemplary large-scale new communities. Read more

Garden City Principles

The Garden City Principles are a distillation of the key elements that have made the Garden City model of development so successful, articulated for a 21st century context. Read more

Guidance for delivering new Garden Cities

Guidance for creating 21st Century Garden Cities. Read more

Campaigning for new Garden Cities

The TCPA's campaign has involved working cross-sector and at all levels of government to make new garden cities a reality. Read more

Research on Garden Cities and New Towns

Our research explores what experience of delivering new communities from across the UK and beyond can teach us about delivering new Garden Cities today Read more

Land of Promise

'Love, Life & Liberty' is a words and music presentation featuring guest readers, and musicians. It journeys through three and a half centuries of radical thought, writing, and song about the connection between art, social justice and the living environment. Read more

New Towns APPG

The TCPA is the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on New Towns, which has been set up to celebrate the contribution made by the UK's and to highlight the challenges they face. Read more

Latest

TCPA Annual conference - 'Facing the Future' - the implications for planning our places

The TCPA’s 2019 annual conference will focus on the implications of future change for planners and those involved in creating our environment.

Housing for a fairer society: the role of councils in ensuring stronger communities

This report considers the barriers to councils building more high-quality, affordable housing, making ten recommendations for government reform.

Blog: Shouldn’t we get the homes we need, not just what we’re given?

Andrew Shipley writes about the need for more accessible housing as part of our Healthy Homes Act blog series.

Press release: Councils warn that permitted development a risk to health and wellbeing

Councils across England are warning that homes created using permitted development rights are a potential threat to people’s health and wellbeing.

The Raynsford Review of Planning

Rt Hon Nick Raynsford's landmark review of the English planning system, commissioned by the TCPA.

Garden City Principles

The Garden City Principles are a distillation of the key elements that have made the Garden City model of development so successful, articulated for a 21st century context.

Guidance for delivering new Garden Cities

Guidance for creating 21st Century Garden Cities.

The Journal of the Town and Country Planning Association

Publications

The TCPA's Reuniting Health with Planning initiative has four strands: capacity building, guidance, research and raising awareness. It has resulted in a number of publications in the form of planning guidance, reports and special-edition journals of Town & Country Planning.