We shouldn't need to wear protective clothing to stay warm, dry and healthy in our own home. But since 1 in 4 of us in the UK are living in homes with issues like damp, cold and mould – it's an absurd solution for a very real problem. Demand change – email your MP today. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo

🔬 We've put the Government's new Healthy Homes Standard (a set of design requirements & guidance) under the microscope to see how it measures up against our 12 #HealthyHomesPrinciples. www.tcpa.org.uk/review-of-ho... #HealthyHomesStandard #AffordableHousingProgramme #HomesEngland

🏡Our latest Healthy Homes update is now live! 🏡 Click the link below for the latest on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill debate in the @houseoflords.parliament.uk, New Towns reports and much more... mailchi.mp/586443a9978b...

Great review by @PeterApps of HBF holding the government to ransom on their 1.5m house building target - without addressing the failure of the market to deliver genuinely affordable homes @mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

🏡Our latest Healthy Homes update is now live! 🏡 Click the link below for the latest on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill debate in the @houseoflords.parliament.uk, New Towns reports and much more... mailchi.mp/586443a9978b...

Rising sea levels. Coastal erosion. Coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change The Environment Agency & the TCPA have launched new e-learning modules for planners, coastal practitioners & public sector flood risk professionals www.tcpa.org.uk/new-coastal-...

Lord Crisp's amendments on health improvement and health inequalities will be presented this evening on the #PlanningandInfrastructureBill Hopefully #BaronessTaylor @mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy and peers will support this vital amendment! #Health #Planning www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home...

Awaab’s Law now begins to take effect. The tragic & preventable deaths of 8-year old Ella Adoo-Kissi Debra & 2-year old Awaab Ishak show that the location & quality of our homes have a fundamental impact on our health & wellbeing. Join the fight for Healthy Homes: www.tcpa.org.uk/collection/c...

⏳ Only 3 weeks left to enter #ThePineapples Awards 2026. The final deadline is 21 November. The Pineapple for Healthy Homes, in partnership with the TCPA, recognises completed homes that promote the health of residents & citizens. Submit your entry: www.festivalofplace.co.uk/thepineapples

We're backing @thetcpa.bsky.social's call to strengthen the Planning and Infrastructure Bill so every home supports our health and wellbeing. Peers vote next week and urgent change is needed. Find out more about the proposed amendments and how you can help: www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home...

🏡 We're seeking amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to help secure the healthy homes that the country needs. 👇 Hear from our campaign funders, Nationwide Foundation about why they're calling for #HealthyHomesNow! youtu.be/YzUos9vQvrM Support the campaign www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home...

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill *could* be the way to deliver secure, healthy & resilient homes. But to achieve that aim, the legislation requires significant changes. We're campaigning for amendments to ensure the delivery of #HealthyHomesNow! Join the campaign www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home...

Stop pitting the quality of our homes and communities against the quantity delivered @teamlabouruk.bsky.social - when you know we can do both. And you also know to address growing health inequalities we must tackle the crisis in affordability and quality of homes. It is time for #HealthyHomesNow!

Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds. Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions. #AirPollution #HealthyHomes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No prosecutions made after 15,195 wood-burning complaints in a year in England #AirPollution #HealthyHomes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We need Crisis at Christmas volunteers for all kinds of roles: 🍽️ Serving food? Well obviously! ♟️ Chess player? We need you! 🔢 Bingo caller? Yup! 🪮 Hairdresser? You bet! 🦸 Good listener? the most important job of all. Join us this Christmas: https://bit.ly/479O3PU

📣 We’re seeking amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to ensure that new homes are healthy, secure & genuinely affordable. 📨 Use our email template to tell the Minister for housing in the Lords that we need #HealthyHomesNow! www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home... @nationwidefdtn.bsky.social

Our October Healthy Homes update is live! Click on the link below for the latest news, including on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, New Towns, new resources and up-coming events: mailchi.mp/03d54c0376aa...

Next week @houseoflords.parliament.uk are voting on key amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. It's time to stop permitting slum housing. It's time for health improvement to be a central aim in planning decisions. It's time for #HealthyHomesNow! www.tcpa.org.uk/healthy-home...

Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett says the government needs to address Land Value Capture in the north of England where viability of #housing development is so much harder than elsewhere. #HealthyCityDesign #HCD2025

Helen Simpson @greatermanchester.bsky.social describes Greater Manchester's 10-year health plan and partnership which commits to delivering Healthy Homes for all - recognising housing is a cornerstone for happy and healthy people #HCD2025 #HealthyCity

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more UK homes at risk. Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, @theguardian.com and #Aviva find www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking at what is driving growing #health inequalities in the UK... 'The question of housing supply, quality and affordability looms large', says Malcolm Marmot via @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Scrapping the Climate Change Act would be a reckless and indefensible move, undermining the UK’s green economy and damaging our global credibility at a time of escalating climate risks. @shaunspiers1.bsky.social responds👇

Since Brexit, UK circular economy policy has fallen behind the EU. eg: Extended producer responsibility for packaging is just now being implemented, and only after much delay and dilution. Our latest stocktake examines the growing gap and what England's upcoming strategy must deliver to close it.

Rather beautiful interactive map - examining the elements of a paradigm shift towards a regenerative future public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Challenging piece on the impact of AI on graduate recruitment youtu.be/IeTFpsuCor8?...

The #BuildBabyBuild mantra is basically calling for a free market free-for-all on housing. We only need to look at past and recent consequences of deregulation to understand that approach is not going to deliver the homes this country needs @uklabour.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/ec...

The article says they are talking about 'leaving the Aarhus Convention' which protects our basic rights of access to information, justice and decision making on our natural environment. When did @uklabour.bsky.social decide to put GDP before people and the planet?

Parks should be accessible & welcoming to all. Yet in Britain, women are 3x more likely than men to feel unsafe in a park during the day. We must create a community of active bystanders to make our parks safer & more inclusive, writes Dr Anna Barker on the launch of a new campaign. shorturl.at/kti7o

At this year's TCPA Annual Conference, we'll hear inspiring examples of community planning & nature recovery, learn what the Planning & Infrastructure Bill proposals mean in practice, & consider how local planning authorities should approach the next year. Tickets: www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tcpa-a...

The New Towns Taskforce has a unique opportunity, not only to explore lasting solutions to the housing crisis, but to deliver complete communities that enhance people’s health & wellbeing. ‘Health, hope & prosperity‘ sets out what's needed to create a healthy new town www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/he...

🔊 Air Source Heat Pumps are vital for decarbonising homes but noise can be a real barrier Join acoustics expert Jack Harvie-Clark on for a webinar on ASHP noise rules + smart design solutions 🗓️ Tue 7 Oct | 12–13 | Online 💷 Free for GHA/BPN members | £20+VAT others goodhomes.org.uk/events/acous...

“Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers’ protections or the right to protest, a place of pure environmental dereliction” Good piece on the dystopian vision Farage, Tice & Reform are reaching for: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m in Norway right now. When I told folks here that back home in the UK people say heat pumps don’t work in cold weather they just laughed out loud. Find out why 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

Findings on indoor #airquality from this research study of 300 homes in Bradford, includes how cooking leads to pollutant spikes and poor ventilation in bedrooms esp in winter increases exposure to carbon dioxide: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

London's Green Roots Fund is open for applications from local authorities and charities until 22 Jan - funding projects that promote green and blue infrastructure around the capital @thetcpa.bsky.social @habsandheritage.bsky.social www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

Unity - love this poem by #HussainManawer www.instagram.com/reel/DOq2DQZ...

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

This analysis of UK government policies that shape urban development suggests health rarely features to any substantial extent. Collaborative action across government departments and political leadership could support better integration of health into planning: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apparently key advisors to the Treasury are the very same guys who 'advised' Liz Truss - that's not worrying at all?! @kateraworth.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our Healthy Homes - September update is now live! 🏡 Click on the link below for the latest on housing, health and planning... #Housing #Health

The Housing minister says the NPPF addresses people's health but this means little in practice - as paragraph nine of the NPPF states these policies ‘are not criteria against which every decision can or should be judged’. @dluhcmedia.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

🗣️ 'Planning has been described by some, rather mischievously, as a ‘system without a purpose’. But we argue that the planning system can be transformational.' Lachlan Anderson-Frank reveals what to expect from this year's Annual Conference: The purpose of planning. www.tcpa.org.uk/announcing-t...

Baroness Thornhill (Lib Dem) has called on the government to reform Permitted Development Rights to ensure that we build more good quality homes through the planning system #housing #Planning @lgbtqreads.bsky.social @dluhcmedia.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thetcpa.bsky.social

Important @FT article suggesting that the affordable #housingcrisis is less about lack of supply and more about high land value and the unequal distribution of homes around the English population - by John Plender www.ft.com/content/d905...

The @local.gov.uk has found that nearly 28,000 affordable homes have not been delivered due to office-to-residential conversions under PDR in the past 11 years. It is time for reform #housing www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Pineapples champion projects that tackle urgent challenges & create spaces where communities flourish. The Pineapple for Healthy Homes returns for a second year! This award celebrates best practice & raises awareness of the impact of housing quality on health. Enter: thepineapples.co.uk

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Developers' friend or foe? In this guest blog, Sally Hayns (CEO, CIEEM)) discusses why Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill may not be the answer to developers’ dreams. 🔗 www.tcpa.org.uk/planning-and...

There's still time to apply for this position: Osborn Research Assistant (New Towns & Garden Cities)!