The library has been sorted by area of work, topic area, resource type and publishers. The areas of work include: Climate Change, Healthy Place-making, Garden Cities and New Towns, Community Participation and Social Justice, Parks and Green Infrastructure, and Planning Reform.
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Building the Future: A TCPA manifesto for the 2019 General Election
Ahead of the General Election on 12th December the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) is calling on all political parties to commit to policies that will make new and existing communities just, healthier and more sustainable.
Joint Statement: Planning for the climate crisis
A group of planning and environmental organisations have issued an urgent call to Government to put the climate crisis at the heart of all planning decisions.
Mainstreaming green infrastructure
This free database, coordinated by Professor Alister Scott, works to ensure that green infrastructure is accessible to everyone and compiles information on its economic, health and wellbeing benefits. The website publishes key organisations, reports, tools and research papers on the subject.
The Green Space Factor and the Green Points System
This paper presents advice on how to implement the Green Space Factor, a tool for calculating green infrastructure requirements for new developments.
Building with Nature
Building with Nature is an assessment and accreditation service for green infrastructure in housing and commercial development. The tool measures three key themes: wellbeing, water and wildlife, aligning each with local policy contexts and ensuring commitments to long-term maintenance.
Green Flag Awards
The Green Flag Awards scheme recognises and rewards well-managed parks and green spaces, setting a benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces across the UK and around the world. Communities can nominate their shared green spaces for a green flag award, which will help encourage others to achieve similar standards and further protect the nations parks.
Managing grassland road verges
The conservation charity Plantlife has created a guide for managing road verges to improve biodiversity.
Green Infrastructure Resource Library
The Green Infrastructure Resource Library (GIRL) is a unique database of documents, case-studies, videos, tools and other information about green infrastructure and its benefits and is free to use.
Town & Country Planning Journal Special Edition – Mainstreaming green infrastructure
A special edition of the journal Town & Country Planning, guest edited by Professor Alister Scott. Using case studies from around the world, this special edition of our monthly journal explores academic, policy and practice articles to signpost how green infrastructure can be better configured, communicated and employed to deliver responsible placemaking.
TCPA Briefing Paper 50: Putting Garden Cities at the Heart of the Housing and Planning Bill
New planning legislation provides an opportunity to update the New Towns Act. The TCPA has worked cross-party to promote amendments to the Act through recent legislation, resulting in some progressive parliamentary debate.
New Towns Act 2015?
In February 2014 the TCPA published a landmark document into how the UK can deliver the beautiful, inclusive and sustainable communities of the future.
Unlocking the potential of large-scale new communities
In March 2021 TCPA published a briefing paper take stock of the current state of play and delivery barriers, drawing lessons from the New Communities Group and elsewhere to reveal some of the challenges surrounding the current debate on large scale development and to indicate key actions which local and national government to unlock this opportunity.
