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TCPA Sustainable Communities and Planning Conference: 1 Dec 2009

This conference celebrates the Centenary of the Housing and Town Planning Act 1909 and addresses the planning challenges of today. As John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, said, the 1909 Act would ‘provide a domestic condition for the people in which their physical health, their morals, their character, and their whole social condition can be improved’. While ‘morals’ are now left to those outside the planning system, it is still through planning that housing and social conditions can be improved, and the new, big challenge is, of course, climate change.

Download TCPA Annual Conference 1 Dec 2009 Brochure

Andy Rumfitt appointed to the TCPA Policy Council

At last night's AGM Andy Rumfitt was elected to the Town and Country Planning Association's Policy Council.

The TCPA campaigns for the reform of the UK’s planning system to make it more responsive to people’s needs and aspirations and to promote sustainable development.

The TCPA occupies a unique position, overlapping with those involved in the development industry, the environmental movement and those concerned with social justice. The Association prides itself on leading-edge, radical thinking and problem-solving.

Its objectives are to:

• Secure a decent, well designed home for everyone, in a human-scale environment combining the best features of town and country
• Empower people and communities to influence decisions that affect them
• Improve the planning system in accordance with the principles of sustainable development

How Croydon Council's carbon management plan is reducing carbon emissions by 2,000 tonnes each year

Recent and planned environmental legislation together with a history of energy management led Croydon Council to develop a comprehensive carbon management programme with the help of the Carbon Trust. Operating for the last four years, the programme aims to reduce carbon emissions from the Council's activities.  Actions have focussed on making energy saving improvements across the Council's property portfolio and their housing stock, street lighting, the vehicle fleet, staff travel modes, computing services and in new developments.  As a result in 2007/8 over 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide and just under £100,000 were saved.

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