This is the evidence provided by the Royal Town Planning Institute to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committe on the Voluntary National Review (VNR) of the progress towards the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our response focused primarily on the Government's preliminary Emerging Findings document, and in particular on the section regarding SDG11 'Sustainable Cities and Communities' and its achievement in the UK. The RTPI, as a founding member of the Global Planners' Network, was instrumental in lobbying for the creation of SDG11 and including planning as an instrument to achieve it in the UN-Habitat's New Urban Agenda.
