Commonwealth Association of Planners

The CAP Awards for Outstanding Planning Achievement in the Commonwealth seek to champion the very best examples of planning practice in the Commonwealth.

We are now taking submissions for the 2018 CAP Awards.

Full details here...

The Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting of High Commissioners or other Senior representatives of all Commonwealth countries took place on 20 March 2018 at Marlborough House, London. The meeting included an opportunity for civil society organisations to present to COW issues which civil society wishes to promote to heads of Government...

The University of Birmingham and the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP) held a seminar on Planning Challenges in the Commonwealth on March 22nd 2018. It provided an ideal and timely opportunity for people to share their ideas and approaches and to explore opportunities for on-going collaboration to deal with planning challenges in the Commonwealth. Download full report below...

CAP is honoured to announce the appointment of Trudi Elliot CBE MRTPI as Patron of CAP.

The appointment, which had been agreed by the CAP Executive Committee, was formally announced by CAPs President Dyan Currie at a dinner held in London on 18 April 2018. The dinner was hosted by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) for international guests on the occasion of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting taking place in London at the time...

This survey of the planning profession represents an attempt to assess the current state of the planning profession in the Commonwealth and its capacity to help deliver the targets contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda. Follow the below link for preliminary findings…

We would like to present to you a manifesto written in collaboration with young representatives from the CAA (Commonwealth Association of Architects) and CAP (Commonwealth Association of Planners). The manifesto seeks to respond to the question: ‘How can young people in Commonwealth Nations help in making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable?’ (SDG11)...

Applications invited for grants for 2 young planners to attend CAPs South Africa Business Meeting and Planning Africa Conference, October 2018

I am very pleased to let you know that the CAP Executive Committee has agreed to offer grants of GBP £1,000 (British pounds) to two young planners to attend the CAP biennial Business Meeting and Planning Africa Conference 2018...

Welcome to a special newsletter celebrating the CAP involvement at the United Nations Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) 9 held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2018. Many CAP members were participating both individually and representing CAP...

Traditional planning has to change and change quickly. This is the message that opens a new, free-to-download book. Leading Change: Delivering the New Urban Agenda through Urban and Territorial Planning was launched at the Ninth World Urban Forum in February 2018. It provides a short, easy to read advocacy of the way that planning practice can contribute to addressing some of the major challenges that the Commonwealth, and so also the world, faces in the 21st century...

Secretary- General, Clive Harridge speaks at London School of Business and Management

Clive Harridge spoke about the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at an event organised by the London School of Business and Management (LSBM) as part of the LSBM Lighthouse series of events leading up to CHOGM. The focus of the talk was on sustainable development and how this is being addressed across the Commonwealth...