Green Infrastructure Partnership (GIP)

The Green Infrastructure Partnership (GIP) is a rapidly growing network of more than 2,000 people and organisations that support the creation, enhancement and promotion of green infrastructure (GI) in the UK to improve quality of life, health, ecological diversity, resilience to climate change and economic attractiveness.

The GIP enables people to share information - research, innovation, news and best practice - via newsletters and events. Its strategic focus is to influence key decision-makers by ensuring they have appropriate evidence about the value of GI to inform their decisions.

The GIP was launched by Defra in October 2011 as an outcome of the government’s Natural Environment White Paper, The Natural Choice: Securing the Value of Nature. The TCPA has been running the GIP since 2014, with no government funding, but sponsorship and in-kind support from: Arup, the Landscape Institute, the Land Trust, the National Trust, Natural England, and the Canal & River Trust.

The GIP is funded by a range of sponsors from the public, private and third sectors. Benefits of sponsoring GIP include excellent networking opportunities across the sector; invitations to key meetings, events and presentations; and the chance to help promote green infrastructure at a strategic level nationally. If you are interested in sponsoring the GIP please contact Julia Thrift on julia.thrift@tcpa.org.uk

Come to our conference on 11 October 2017 - for more information see here.

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Green Infrastructure Resource Library

A free, searchable database of case studies, videos, tools and other media relating to green infrastructure.Read more

Green infrastructure events calendar

Linear Infrastructure Network

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TCPA seminar: Inclusive England

Join the TCPA for this high-level seminar on the theme of 'Inclusive England' being held in conjunction with the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) and the Institute for Social Renewal, both at Newcastle University. The event is supported by Homes for the North, an alliance of almost twenty large housing associations, who want to deliver more homes across the North of England.

Press release: Garden Cities book offers blueprint for solving housing crisis

Understanding Garden Villages-TCPA Study Tour September 2017

Places now available on our latest Study Tour

Press release: TCPA launches review of housing and planning led by former minister Nick Raynsford

The TCPA is launching a review of housing and planning alongside a task force of experts in policy, law, planning practice and public participation.

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.

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, more than 30 workshops with local authorities on healthy places, reports and special-edition journals of Town & Country Planning.