The Hertfordshire Healthy and Safe Places Framework

With an increasing emphasis on Neighbourhood Health, as set out in the NHS 10 Year Plan, this Framework aims to guide the creation of healthier, safer, and more inclusive environments across Hertfordshire. It embeds principles of health, wellbeing, and safety into planning policy, ensuring that both new and existing communities support physical, mental and social health.

It provides a framework for local planning authorities and, in time, any Mayoral or Strategic Authority for embedding health considerations in local plans and spatial development strategies, while allowing policy makers the flexibility to respond to local priorities.

The resource is split into two principal parts:

• Part 1 covers Context and Framework - providing an overview of the role of planning in promoting health, key policy context, a baseline picture of health in Hertfordshire and a framework for embedding health in planning policy.
• Part 2 covers Framework Guidance - providing guidance on using the framework to achieve a 'Health in All Policies' approach to ‘healthy placemaking’, from policy development to how to develop place-led strategies and priorities.