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MPs are being urged to strengthen the nation鈥檚 planning system after the general election to end a period of 鈥渄eregulation and demoralisation鈥� that campaigners claim is damaging towns, cities and the countryside.

The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) is urging whoever takes power after 7 May to 鈥渞estore the importance of planning as a key tool in delivering much-needed new homes and communities鈥�.

It wants to see the creation of a new legally-defined purpose for planning, based on sustainable development; the updating and effective deployment of New Towns legislation; and changes to the National Planning Policy Framework to place social justice, equality and climate change at the heart of planning decisions. 

The TCPA鈥檚 manifesto also calls for stronger measures to ensure that councils work together to meet housing need.

Chief executive Kate Henderson said the planning system was being 鈥渃ontinually undermined and devalued鈥� though significant reforms and deregulation. 

鈥淧lanning has lost all sense of the progressive social values that once lay at its core, and unless we are careful is at risk of being destroyed altogether,鈥� she said. 

鈥淎 new government must act to restore the prominence of planning as an essential element to create the new homes, communities and infrastructure that the nation so desperately needs. 

鈥淔or the sake of our children and grandchildren, planning must be seen as a positive proactive force for good and must be placed at the centre of political debate.鈥�

The four-page TCPA manifesto can be read .