british new towns - a story of success, betrayal and hope

摘要

This column is normally used to summarise the TCPA's current activities - and despite the paralysis inside government caused by the Brexit process, the Association has had a particularly productive few weeks. Four parliamentary launches of projects and guides - ranging from a new European project on green cities, to a new climate guide, to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on New Towns, to a new campaign to celebrate one hundred years since the call for 'homes fit for heroes' - have kept the TCPA very much in the public eye.I took it as one of the greatest pleasures of being TCPA Interim Chief Executive to stand in a House of Commons committee room next to a TCPA banner announcing a new EU-supported project in the very week that MPs were failing to agree on how the UK should leave. Mayors from five EU nations spoke in support of mutual international learning and co-operation - values which have always been a core part of the TCPA's mission.