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Partner Sites

This new feature of the RTPI site provides links to other useful sites. It will be added to and amended as we find out more sites of use and interest and receive suggestions from you! Contact links@rtpi.org.uk

RTPI Hosted Sites

• Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP) http://www.commonwealth-planners.org/
• European Council of Town Planners (ECTP) http://www.ceu-ectp.org/
• International Development Forum (IDF) http://www.idforum.org.uk/

RTPI Partner Sites

• Planners' Summer School http://www.planningsummerschool.co.uk/
• Planning http://www.planning.haynet.com/news.cfm
• Planning Theory and Practice www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14649357.html
• ROOM http://www.room.org.uk/
• RTPI Conferences http://www.rtpiconferences.co.uk/
• RTPI Consultants http://www.rtpiconsultants.co.uk/
• RTPI Library Series http://www.sponpress.com/series/plan_rtpi.htm
• The Planning (video) Channel www.einstein-network.com/Planning/about.asp?channel=P

Government

• UK-Online http://www.ukonline.gov.uk/
• Houses of Parliament http://www.parliament.uk/
• National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government http://www.wales.gov.uks/
• Scottish Executive http://www.scotland.gov.uk/
• Government of Northern Ireland http://www.nics.gov.uk/
• Cabinet Office http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/
• Committee on Standards in Public Life http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) http://www.culture.gov.uk/
• Department for Education & Skills (DfES) http://www.dfes.gov.uk/
• Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) http://www.defra.gov.uk/
• Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) http://www.dti.gov.uk/
• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister : http://www.odpm.gov.uk/ (Planning Directorate: http://www.planning.odpm.gov.uk/ )
• Department for Transport : http://www.dft.gov.uk/
• HM Treasury http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
• POLIS (Parliamentary Online Indexing Service): http://www.polis.parliament.uk/

Public bodies

• Audit Commission http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/
• Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) http://www.cabe.org.uk/
• Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) http://www.cfit.gov.uk/
• Countryside Agency http://www.countryside.gov.uk/
• Court Service http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/
• Disability Rights Commission www.drc-gb.org
• English Heritage http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
• English Nature http://www.english-nature.org.uk/
• English Partnerships http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk/
• Environment Agency http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
• Heritage Lottery Fund http://www.national-/
• Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) http://www.legisaltion.hmso.gov.uk/
• HMSO online bookshop: www.tso.co.uk/bookshop
• Housing Corporation http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk/
• London Gazette http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/
• National Land Use Database http://www.nlud.org.uk/
• Office for National Statistics http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
• Ordnance Survey http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/
• Planning Inspectorate http://www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk/
• Sustainable Development Commission http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/
• Social Exclusion Unit: http://www.socialexclusionunit.gov.uk/

Regions

• Government Offices for the Regions: www.odpm.gov.uk/go
• Regional Co-Ordination Unit: http://www.rcu.gov.uk/
• Regional Development Agencies: www.local-regions.odpm.gov.uk/rda

Local Government

• Info4.local.gov.uk http://www.info4local.gov.uk/
• Local Government Association (LGA) http://www.lga.gov.uk/
• Improvement Development Agency (IdeA) http://www.idea.gov.uk/
• Local authority websites (A to z) http://www.ukonline.gov.uk/
• Greater London Authority http://www.london.gov.uk/
• Planning Officers' Society http://www.planningofficers.org.uk/

Professional Bodies

• Chartered Institute of Housing http://www.cih.org/
• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) http://www.ice.org.uk/
• Institution of Highways & Transportation (IHT) http://www.iht.org/
• Institute of Historic Building Conservation http://www.ihbc.org.uk/
• Landscape Institute http://www.l-i.org.uk/
• Law Society http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/
• Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) http://www.architecture.com/
• RoyaI Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) http://www.rics.org.uk/
• South East Collaborative CPD & Events Website www.cpdevents.org.uk/search.php

Other bodies

• Abacus Construction Index http://www.construction-index.com/
• Association of Town Centre Management (ATCM) http://www.atcm.org/
• British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) http://www.bura.org.uk/
• Civic Trust http://www.civictrust.org.uk/
• Confederation of British Industry (CBI) http://www.cbi.org.uk/home.html
• Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) http://www.cpre.org.uk/
• CRASH- the construction and property industry charity for the homeless http://www.crash.org.uk/
• English Historic Towns Forum http://www.ehtf.org.uk/
• Einstein Network http://www.einstein-network.com/Planning/about.asp?channel=P
• Geographical Association http://www.geograhy.org.uk/
• Groundwork Trust http://www.groundwork.org.uk/
• House Builders Federation (HBF) http://www.hbf.co.uk/
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) http://www.jrf.org.uk/
• Planning Officers' Society http://www.planningofficers.org.uk/
• Regional Studies Association http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/
• Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC) http://www.rsnc.org/
• Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) http://www.tcpa.org.uk/
• Transport Planning Society http://www.tps.org.uk/
• Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) http://www.udal.org.uk/
• Urban Design Group (UDG) http://www.udg.org.uk/

Education and Research

• Planning schools offering RTPI accredited courses http://www.rtpi.org.uk/careers-and-membership/plan-ed.html

Scotland

• Scottish Executive http://www.scotland.gov.uk/

Wales

• National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government http://www.wales.gov.uks/

Northern Ireland

• Government of Northern Ireland http://www.nics.gov.uk/

Ireland

• Government of Ireland http://www.irlgov.ie/

European

• Council of Europe www.coe.int/portalT.asp
• European Commission http://www.europa.eu.int/
• European Information Network in the UK http://www.europe.org.uk/info/Default.asp?flash=yes
• European New Towns Platform (ENTP) http://www.newtowns.net/
• European Spatial Planning Research & Information Database (ESPRID) http://www.esprid.org/
• European Sustainable Cities Campaign http://www.sustainable-cities.org/
  
• INTERREG IIIB http://www.interregiiib.org.uk/contact.htm
• Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) www.ncl.ac.uk/aesop/main.htm
• Planum: European journal of planning http://www.planum.net/
• European Council of Town Planners (ECTP)http://www.ceu-ectp.org/
• Asociación Española de Técnicos Urbanistas (AETU) http://www.aetu.es/
• Associazione Nazionale degli Urbanisti e dei Pianificatori ambientali e territoriali (ASSURB) www.urbanisti.it/index-f.html
• Bond van Nederlandse Stedebouwkundigen en Planologen (BNSP) http://www.bnsp.nl/
• Fachverband der Schweizer RaumplanerInnen-Fédération Suisse des Urbanistes (FSU) http://www.f-s-u.ch/
• Foreningen af Byplanlæggere (FAB) http://www.fabnet.dk/
• Irish Planning Institute (IPI) http://www.irishplanninginstitute.ie/
• Istituto Nazionale Urbanistica (INU) http://www.inu.it/
• Société Française des Urbanistes (SFU) http://www.urbanistes.com/
• Vereinigung für Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung (SRL)http://www.srl.de/
• Vlaamse Vereniging voor Ruimte en Planning (VRP) http://www.vrp.be/
• Czech Association for Urban and Regional Planning (AUUP CR) http://www.urbanismus.cz/

International

• International Development Forum (IDF) http://www.idforum.org.uk/
• International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP)http://www.ifhp.org/
• International Network for Urban Development (INTA) http://www.inta-aivn.org/
• International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP) http://www.isocarp.org/
• UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme http://www.unhabitat.org/
• American Planning Association (APA) http://www.planning.org/
• Planetizen http://www.planetizen.com/
• Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP) http://www.commonwealth-planners.org/
• Canadian Institute of Planners-Institut canadien des Urbanistes http://www.cip-icu.ca/
• New Zealand Planning Institute http://www.nzplanning.co.nz/
• Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) http://www.planning.org.au/
• South Africa Planners http://www.saplanners.org.za/
• Asian Planning Schools Association www.hku.hk/cupem/apsa/

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