All homes should be healthy homes!
We’re excited to celebrate the achievements of the Campaign for Healthy Homes today in the House of Lords. We’ll reflect on the lessons from 8 years of campaigning & look ahead to the future of housing in England.
Kindly supported by @nationwidefdtn.bsky.social
❓Missed our webinar on hybrid public health & planning roles in local authorities?
💻Catch up: www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/on...
💡The session covers:
> how health & planning roles can emerge
> place-based outcomes they’ve helped achieve (from policy to culture change)
> challenges & opportunities
People should have a right to shape decisions in their localities.
We're recommending that the NPPF contains a new chapter 21 focused on prioritising community empowerment.
Support the campaign!
Click here for the campaign text, which you can submit to the NPPF consultation: shorturl.at/ba9a6
#Futurebuild2026 will explore the 3Rs: Resilience, Reuse & Regenerative Design
Sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric, taking place 12-14 May at Excel London, the conference will explore how construction can deliver genuinely resilient outcomes.
Agenda www.futurebuild.co.uk
Register shorturl.at/wIiBO
‘Building regs must be seen as a floor to increase standards across all new buildings, not a ceiling.’ - Hugh Ellis, TCPA
The TCPA & over 60 local authorities, businesses & NGOs is calling on the government to scrap plans that could spell the end of zero carbon homes in England.
shorturl.at/qSiIC
We’ve signed this because new homes should be built for the future, not to lower standards. The proposed planning changes could limit councils from requiring stronger environmental standards, including zero carbon homes. read more @thetcpa.bsky.social www.tcpa.org.uk/the-end-of-z...
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The Sheffield Declaration aims to restore the ideals of town planning to be a creative, democratic & visionary practice!
Launched by the TCPA & academics at the University of Sheffield, it brings together a new 'Purpose for Democratic Planning' & 'Ethical Code for Planners'
🖇️ shorturl.at/YJrls
LETI has bought together local authorities & orgs inc. the TCPA, to develop a template response to Policy PM13 in the draft NPPF, which seeks to limit local authorities' ability to set targets in terms of energy, carbon & overheating. The template response is open to all. www.leti.uk/consultations
26.02.2026 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The TCPA, along with more than 60 organisations, including local authorities, businesses and civil society groups, is calling on the government to scrap plans that could spell the end of zero carbon homes in England.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
#ZeroCarbonHomes #NetZero #EnergyEfficiency
It's time for a new direction for planning. The TCPA & academics at Uni of Sheffield are excited to share the Sheffield Declaration!
It brings together a new 'purpose for planning' & 'ethical code for planners' to reunite the profession with its visionary roots.
www.tcpa.org.uk/a-new-purpos...
An important message to #SteveReedMP @mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy on #housing standards in the NPPF - 'Building regulations must be seen as a floor to increase standards across all new buildings, not a ceiling.' - Hugh Ellis TCPA director
26.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Very pleased to have added my name to this letter. Stopping local leadership on zero carbon homes is not what's needed as we shift to the need to decarbonise housing, the next big challenge for the UK's move to net zero (alongside transport).
www.tcpa.org.uk/the-end-of-z...
I'm a signatory to this letter to Steve Reed. We need the government to step up and support a standard for zero carbon homes. Rather than pandering yet again to the developer lobby, Labour should be ensuring future homes are climate friendly as well as cheaper and more efficient to run.
24.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We need homes that are fit for the future
60+ local authorities, businesses & eNGOs are calling on the government to scrap plans that could spell the end of zero carbon homes in England
Co-signatories inc @uk100.org, @friends-earth.bsky.social, @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social
🖇️ shorturl.at/Z18c2
It's time for a new direction for planning. The TCPA & academics at Uni of Sheffield are excited to share the Sheffield Declaration!
It brings together a new 'purpose for planning' & 'ethical code for planners' to reunite the profession with its visionary roots.
www.tcpa.org.uk/a-new-purpos...
This free webinar is for anyone interested in enabling specialist healthy places roles in local government and people who may be interested in taking them up.
📆 25 Feb 11:30am – 12:30pm
This event is being held in collaboration with the Health & Wellbeing in Planning Network.
🎫 shorturl.at/P56FX
Data from Aviva in The Guardian shows that by 2050, 1 in 7 of homes built between 2022-24 will be at medium or high risk of flooding.
Planning policy must protect communities in the face of climate change. But the proposed NPPF contains tangible regression on climate policy: shorturl.at/fknEB
The Planning for Nature Project, led by The University of Sheffield with support from the TCPA, has spoken to practitioners & policymakers in England & Scotland to explore how nature was integrated into each nations' planning systems.
They reveal a complex picture of dysfunction: shorturl.at/aLG45
Confused by how exactly the planning system can support nature recovery?
You're not the only one.
This blog provides insights from 4 focus groups with planning & ecology practitioners involved in local government, national policy and the development & biodiversity sectors:
Ahead of the Specialist healthy places roles webinar on 25/2 take a look at the blog from PHIRST South Bank's Thomas Mills...
12.02.2026 14:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is a disgraceful situation - too many NEW homes are not being built with good insulation, damp, poorly ventilated and failing to protect young families from harm. Plus it costs so much to address retrospectively. The #NewHomesOmbudsman needs proper weight to hold constructors to account!
12.02.2026 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How can planners translate health aspirations into day-to-day decisions?
A movement of practitioners is emerging – people able to speak ‘planning’ & ‘public health’ – to drive change locally. This blog explores the key functions that hybrid public health-planning roles deliver shorturl.at/Et4uP
An array of barriers are limiting efforts to ensure that planning systems in England & Scotland contribute to nature recovery.
This was a clear message from practitioner focus groups delivered by the TCPA for the Planning For Nature project, led by the University of Sheffield.
shorturl.at/i3g2Z
The new issue of Town & Country Planning journal is a special edition: ‘Making New Towns work'.
Leading experts respond to the New Towns Taskforce’s report, offering critical insights and practical guidance for those who will design and deliver the next generation of New Towns.
🖇️ shorturl.at/LZj0B
The Department for Transport and leading chargepoint operators are running a virtual teach-in session for local authority planners to learn about all things Electric Vehicle Infrastructure.
📆 10 March 11am-12.30pm.
🔗 Sign up here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3b3300...
For the next New Towns to succeed as sustainable, exemplary communities, the government must commit to a clear strategy for their long-term management & maintenance, writes the TCPA's Katy Lock for the latest issue of Town & Country Planning journal:
Read for free: www.tcpa.org.uk/sample-journ...
Free webinar: TCPA + Health & Wellbeing in Planning Network (25 Feb 11:30am – 12:30pm)
Hear from 3 people experienced in hybrid public health/planning roles in English local authorities.
They'll share what it takes to make these posts happen & what they can deliver once in place.
shorturl.at/NvdRO
This month's #HealthyHomes update includes our briefing and blogs about how to enhance the health, housing and climate elements in the draft NPPF, the latest news on the Warm Homes Plan, Decent Homes Standard and more... 🏘️
#health #housing #planning
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The proposed NPPF is out for consultation until 10 March. But, what does it mean for local democracy, public health and the climate?
These three blogs cover the key implications of the proposals:
Local planning decisions: shorturl.at/mBX3a
Climate: shorturl.at/tJyxV
Health: shorturl.at/kASho
One change in the draft NPPF is especially worrying in relation to the nation’s health: it weakens the policy basis for tackling health inequalities.
This is happening when legislation, devolution reforms & health strategy & policy are pulling in the opposite direction.
Blog: shorturl.at/4xJc5
