To celebrate the UK’s New Towns, identify common challenges and make the case for investment and sustainable growth. This APPG will examine how to best support the needs of the 2.8 million people already living in new towns and consider the needs of the residents of the future. Learning the lessons from past new towns in championing and supporting the creation of more new towns.
Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.
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Reticulating Splines
3 Current APPG Officers
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1 APPG Officer Position
Housing and Care for Older People
7 APPG Memberships
Adult Social Care , Beyond Pills , Carbon Monoxide , Environment , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Homelessness , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Housing and Care for Older People
7 APPG Memberships
Adult Social Care , Beyond Pills , Carbon Monoxide , Environment , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Homelessness , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
6 APPG Officer Positions
Community Development Finance Institutions , Council and Social Housing , Hydrogen , Mutuals , Responsible Vaping , Sri Lanka
12 APPG Memberships
Blockchain Technologies , Commonwealth , Fair Banking , Falkland Islands , Freight and Logistics , Grid Networks , Healthcare Workers , Infrastructure , Manufacturing , Media , Nuclear Energy , Writers
Community Development Finance Institutions , Council and Social Housing , Hydrogen , Mutuals , Responsible Vaping , Sri Lanka
12 APPG Memberships
Blockchain Technologies , Commonwealth , Fair Banking , Falkland Islands , Freight and Logistics , Grid Networks , Healthcare Workers , Infrastructure , Manufacturing , Media , Nuclear Energy , Writers
1 APPG Officer Position
Debt and Financial Inclusion
10 APPG Memberships
Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands , Beauty and Wellbeing , British Buses , Get Refusal , Healthcare Workers , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Less Survivable Cancers , Multiple Sclerosis , Parkrun , Theatre
Debt and Financial Inclusion
10 APPG Memberships
Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC) and the Pacific Islands , Beauty and Wellbeing , British Buses , Get Refusal , Healthcare Workers , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Less Survivable Cancers , Multiple Sclerosis , Parkrun , Theatre
Contact Details
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Public Enquiry Point:
Jeanette Aves, Town and Country Planning Association. Tel: 020 8132 5459
Email: Jeanette.Aves@tcpa.org.uk
Secretariat:
Town and Country Planning Association acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.tcpa.org.uk/
Group's Website:
https://www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/all-party-parliamentary-group-on-new-towns/
Benefits in Kind
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Date
12 Nov 2025
12 Nov 2025
Source
Town and Country Planning Association
Town and Country Planning Association
Description
Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From: 12/11/2025 To: 11/11/2026
Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From: 12/11/2025 To: 11/11/2026
Value
£10,501
£10,501
Date
12 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024
Source
Town and Country Planning Association
Town and Country Planning Association
Description
Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 12/11/2024 To : 11/11/2025
Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 12/11/2024 To : 11/11/2025
Value
£6,001
£6,001
Date
12 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024
Source
Town and Country Planning Association
Town and Country Planning Association
Description
Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From: 12/11/2024 To: 11/11/2025
Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From: 12/11/2024 To: 11/11/2025
Value
£6,001
£6,001
Date
26 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023
Source
The Town and Country Planning Association
The Town and Country Planning Association
Description
The Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 26/01/2023 To : 25/01/2024
The Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 26/01/2023 To : 25/01/2024
Value
£1,501
£1,501
Date
26 Jan 2022
26 Jan 2022
Source
The Town and Country Planning Association
The Town and Country Planning Association
Description
The Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 26/01/2022 To : 25/01/2023
The Town and Country Planning Association is paid by The Lady Margaret Paterson Osborn Trust to act as the group's secretariat From : 26/01/2022 To : 25/01/2023
Value
£7,501
£7,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the New Towns APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Andrew Lewin
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Welwyn Hatfield
Joined: 2nd January 2025Departed: 18th May 2026
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Lisa Cameron
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Lucy Allan
Vice Chair
Independent - Former Member for Telford
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Andy Carter
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Warrington South
Joined: 28th June 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Iain Stewart
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Milton Keynes South
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 28th June 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
James Sunderland
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Bracknell
Joined: 23rd March 2022Departed: 17th May 2023
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Rosie Cooper
Officer
Joined: 23rd March 2022Departed: 22nd February 2023
25 APPG Officer Positions
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Assistive and Accessible Technology , Bladder and Bowel Continence Care , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Built Environment , Coastal Communities , Greyhound , Hazaras , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Healthy Places , Hemp Carbon Capture and Rural Development , Latin America , Modernising Employment , Northern Culture , Pensions and Growth , Race Equality in Education , Radiotherapy , Running , Social Mobility , Sustainable Flood and Drought Management , Sustainable Plastics , Swimming , Syria , Tigray , West Papua
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Assistive and Accessible Technology , Bladder and Bowel Continence Care , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Built Environment , Coastal Communities , Greyhound , Hazaras , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Healthy Places , Hemp Carbon Capture and Rural Development , Latin America , Modernising Employment , Northern Culture , Pensions and Growth , Race Equality in Education , Radiotherapy , Running , Social Mobility , Sustainable Flood and Drought Management , Sustainable Plastics , Swimming , Syria , Tigray , West Papua
No other APPG Memberships
Robert Halfon
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Harlow
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 19th October 2022
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Henry Smith
Vice-Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Crawley
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Vice-Chair
Labour - Torfaen
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Faisal Rashid
Vice-Chair
Labour - Former Member for Warrington South
Joined: 2nd January 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Officer Positions
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Vice-Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 21st November 2018