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The Vision set out in the draft South East Plan is of a ‘healthy region’:

'Through the Plan and other measures, the South East will show a sustained improvement in its quality of life over the period to 2026, measured by the well-being of its citizens, the vitality of its economy, the wealth of its environment and the prudent use of natural resources.'

Considering health in planning policy and development control is vital to ensure that developments are sustainable and remain so into the future.

The Regional Assembly held a workshop for planners and health professionals in November 2007, to explore how health issues can be better integrated into the planning system, and how better relationships between the planning and health sectors can be developed.

Presentations

Agenda - 60 KB

Introductory presentation (Catriona Riddell, Regional Assembly) - 312 KB
The Planning System - introduction for health professionals (Ben Linscott, PINS) - 265 KB
The Health Service - introduction for planners (Mike Daly, NHS South East Coast) - 1.46 MB
Planning and Health (Neil Blackshaw, NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit) - 2.47 MB
Healthy Urban Planning in Brighton and Hove (Terry Blair-Stevens and Rob Fraser, Head of Planning, Brighton and Hove City Council) - 762 KB
Planning for Sport (John Feetam, Sport England) - 627 KB
Linking Health and Planning (Carl Petrokofsky, GOSE) - 328 KB

Summary of workshop discussions

Long-term planning for healthy communities - 68 KB
Designing new developments - 70 KB
Building better relationships between planning and health sectors - 77 KB

For further details please contact Cath Rose on 01483 555235

Links

• London NHS Healthy Urban Development Unit
  The Healthy Urban Development Unit has produced a number of useful documents, including the Health and Urban Planning Engagement Toolkit, the HUDU Section 106 Model and the Watch out for Health – Planning Checklist.
  
  
• Brighton and Hove Primary Care Trust
  Brighton and Hove City Council
  Brighton and Hove is designated as a Healthy City by the World Health Organisation. The City Council and Primary Care Trust are working together in Brighton and Hove to help make the city more healthy.
  
  
• Sport England
  Sport England have published a number of tools to help local authority planning and leisure departments build sports provision into new and existing developments, including a Sports Facility Calculator, Active Design Guide and Planning Contributions Kitbag.
  
  
• Department of Health
  The Department of Health have produced two useful guides explaining the links between the planning and health systems.
  A guide to the NHS for local planning authorities
  A guide to town planning for NHS staff
  
  
• Royal Town Planning Institute
  The RTPI have produced a good practice note about extra care housing.
  
  
• Improvement and Development Agency
  The IDeA have a useful section of their website devoted to healthy communities.
  
  
• Government Office for the South East
  Includes information about the Regional Health Strategy.
  

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Last updated: 06 December 2007