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What Good Local Spatial Planning for Healthy Places Looks Like

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This useful paper by the Association of Directors of Public Health outlines why planning at all levels of government is a crucial system tool with multiple windows of opportunity and levers for improving population health.  

Within a UK-wide perspective, it frames both impact and process outcomes across three pillars:

  • Built and natural environment matters: Where designing for health places influences the wider environment
  • Policy matters: Where planners, and other built environment professionals, play a pivotal role in making decisions about the environment that will last generations. Having a strong, health oriented regulatory framework is necessary to ensure due process and achieve outcomes
  • Workforce matters: Where the professional workforce is critical in providing a holistic evidence-informed voice on population health and wellbeing to inform the planning process.

It also provides a route map, outlining the building blocks for healthy placemaking and the key features to deliver these, supported by good practice examples.