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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Join us at MK City Fest to celebrate International New Towns Day 2017 with an evening of music, film and spoken word celebrating the radical voices of the past that inspired the New Towns movement and beyond.

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A TCPA and Nationwide Foundation report which identifies tool kits, research reports and case studies to help councils secure affordable housing.

New guidance launched to help councils secure affordable homes

New resource signposting councils to toolkits, evidence and case studies to help them to secure affordable homes

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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 the Town & Country Planning.