section: Sources of Advice

Town & Country Planning Association

The Town & Country Planning Association grew out of the Garden Cities movement more than 100 years ago and is still campaigning for more community involvement in planning and more sustainable development…

The Town & Country Planning Association grew out of the Garden Cities movement more than 100 years ago and is still campaigning for more community involvement in planning and more sustainable development...

In more detail

The Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) is a charity which aims to improve planning by making it more responsive to communities and more capable of supporting sustainable development.  Its members include other organisations with an interest in planning, planners, academics, other related professionals and people with an interest in planning.

The video below is by the TCPA and presents some ideas about why planning matters:

The TCPA organises events and publishes policy briefings and relevant research etc.  The association grew out of the Garden Cities Movement at the turn of the 20th century and retains committeed to a democratic view of planning as a means of social progress.

 

Key Facts:

The TCPA is a forum for people and organisations that are interested in planning and share the idea that it should be democratic, participatory and focused on the aim of sustainable development.

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The TCPA website has links to policy briefings including on things like forthcoming legislation with a bearing on planning.


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The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community

A charity which aims to help people make communities and neighbourhoods sustainable…

A charity which aims to help people make communities and neighbourhoods sustainable...

In more detail

The Prince’s Foundation  is an educational charity which aims to help people to take part in making communities and neighbourhoods more sustainable. The Foundation works at all levels – from local residents' groups to governments.  Formerly known as the Institute of Architecture, the Foundation was set up in 1987 by the Prince of Wales.

The Prince’s Foundation pioneered ‘Enquiry by Design’.  This is an approach to community planning based on bringing different experts – including resident experts – together  for a concentrated, and intensive, period of time (several days).  The Foundation provides practical support and funding for skills training and education designed to help professionals and communities, together, to make better places to live.

Video introduced by George Clarke – who is President of the Foundation.

Key Facts:

The Prince's Foundation produces advice and shares inspiration for communities and people with responsibility for neighbourhoods.  The Enquiry by Design approach is a way of doing community planning.

Page Links from here

The Prince's Foundation for Building Community is based at 19-22 Charlotte Road, London, EC2A 3SG

Tel:  020 7613 8500  Email: enquiry@princes-foundation.org 

Community Planning


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Sustrans

A national body that aims to support the use of travel by foot, bike and public transport to make everyday journeys…

A national body that aims to support the use of travel by foot, bike and public transport to make everyday journeys...

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Sustrans is a charity that aims to enable people to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of the everyday journeys they make.  The group began – as Cyclebag – in the late 1970s and was closely associated with the development of the National Cycle network, which was a National Lottery Millennium Project.

Sustrans works with local council, employers, developers, communities and others to reduce car use; create better streets and routes; enable safer and more sustainable transport; and to cut carbon emissions.  The group works in neighbourhoods, workplaces and schools and colleges.  As well as contracting for work in localities, Sustrans supports volunteers, organises campaigns and produces research which anyone looking to bring about better places to live and work could find useful.

Key Facts:

Sustrans is a charity set up to promote and enabole the use of sustainable forms of transport.  Its background is in cycling and its Millennium Project was the construction of a national cycle network.  Sustrans runs local projects and national campaigns.

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Sustrans head office is at 2 Cathedral Square,College Green,Bristol  BS1 5DD

Tel: 0117 926 8893  http://www.sustrans.org.uk


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Living Streets

The national charity that promotes walking – might be useful to know if your neighbourhood faces parking and congestion issues around schools and workplaces…

The national charity that promotes walking - might be useful to know if your neighbourhood faces parking and congestion issues around schools and workplaces...

In more detail

Living Streets is a charity which promotes and supports walking as an everyday activity by creating safe, attractive and enjoyable streets, where people want to walk.  It used to be called the Pedestrians’ Association and was set up in the 1930s. The group has a long history of achievments including helping to write the original Highway Code.  It is now probably best known for the national Walk to School campaign. It also runs the Walking Works Campaign, to encourage people to walk some or all of their way to work.

The Walk to School campaign runs National Walk to School week, at the end of May which involves about 2 million schoolchildren each year.   Living Streets contracts for work in localities and supports a network of about twenty local volunteer groups mainly in London which are also involved, with schools, in running Walk to School and walk to work activities.

Key Facts:

Living Streets runs Walk to School Week, Walking Works and other campaigns to pormote walking as a safe and healthy way of making local journeys.  More than two million schoolchildren take part in Walk to School Week each year. 

Page Links from here

Living Streets office is on the 4th Floor, Universal House, 88-94 Wentworth Street, London E1 7SA  email or telephone: 020 7377 4900 or

 


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Community Matters

Community Matters produced a range of advice and information for community groups, but it is winding up in 2016…

Community Matters produced a range of advice and information for community groups, but it is winding up in 2016...

In more detail

Community Matters is the National Federation of Community Organisations.  It is, in 2016, in the process of winding up having suffered from cuts in local council spending.  Community Matters produced a range of useful toolkits and guidance sheets for small community groups and these will continue to be available from Advising Communities - an initiative set up by consultants associated with Community Matters.

Community Matters guidance covers issues involved in setting up and running a community group; acquiring and running premises;  and getting standards in place that are needed if your group begins to handle money.  Community Matters developed a quality system called Visible which is geared towards the needs of community groups.

 

Key Facts:

Community Matters was a non-profit organisation which produced a wide range of useful material for groups involved in community planning.  A new body Advising Communities has been set up to make sure this advice is still available.

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Community Matters is winding up, but you can still access their advice and guidance online at http://www.communitymatters.org.uk  and in future, check http://advising.london/communities for information.

Information about the Visible standard is at http://www.visiblecommunities.org.uk/


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Civic Voice

Civic trusts and amenity societies play an important role in looking after and improving urban neighbourhoods. Civic Voice networks these local groups on a national basis…

Civic trusts and amenity societies play an important role in looking after and improving urban neighbourhoods. Civic Voice networks these local groups on a national basis...

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Civic Voice is the national charity for the civic movement in England, promoting local civic pride. Its aim is to make places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive.  Its members are hundreds of local civic and amenity societies throughout the country and their members: people who care about pride in place and improving neighbourhoods.

The organisation was set up in 2010, after the closure of the Civic Trust, which had fulfilled a similar role. The video above shows projects shortlisted for the Civic Voice Design Awards in 2016.

Key Facts:

Civic Voice replaced the Civic Trust oin 2010 as a national body supporting local civic societies.
 

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The Civic Voice website has details of local Civic Societies and information about how they are using Community Rights in the Localism Act to protect local heritage

In this toolkit see:

The Prince's Foundation for Building Community

Town & Country Planning Association

Conservation Areas

Parish Councils


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