Planning in the UK has its origins in Victorian moves to improve public health, and the practice of planning still has a significant role to play today in enabling healthy living.

Latest news

• Planning, health and the NPPF - see our initial response to the NPPF (key point 6)
• "Two years on" data marks the second anniversary of the Marmot Review Fair Society, Healthy Lives
• Tools for measuring health impacts prescribed more often

Policy changes and consultations

• Draft guidance on joint strategic needs assessments and health and wellbeing strategies: covering letter (pdf, 185 kb) and consultation questions (pdf, 109 kb). Response to Department of Health consultation. Date: 17/02/2012
• European Review on the Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide (pdf, 111 kb) Response to European Office of the WHO consultation. Date: 24/11/2011
• Healthy lives, healthy people white paper: our strategy for public health in England (pdf, 37 kb) Response to DoH consultation. Date: 31/03/2011
• Healthy lives, healthy people: transparency in outcomes, proposals for a public health outcomes framework (pdf, 66 kb) Response to DoH consultation. Date: 31/03/2011

View all RTPI open consultations and make a contribution.

Practice 

• RTPI Planning Awards 2011 Sustainable communities winner: Low Carbon Bath
• RTPI Planning Awards 2011 Sustainable communities commendation: Chester Point
• RTPI Good Practice Note 5: Delivering healthy communities
• Signposting to more practice advice.

Networks and further information

The RTPI Environmental Planning and Protection Network includes a healthy communities interest group. Join the network.

RTPI Projects and research

• The healthy communities interest group has two climate change champions, as part of our Seven Commitments on Climate Change

Our viewpoint

We believe that the health and wellbeing of a community must be considered at all stages of the planning system. In this way we can deliver sustainable development that effectively meets the needs of all sections of the community. One way to ensure this is by integrating public health and spatial planning processes, enabling the two professions to promote health and wellbeing through the delivery of neighbourhoods that promote and provide opportunities for active lifestyles. This in turn assists in the management of health service demands and budgets by promoting healthier communities. RTPI Delivering Healthy Communities GPN

More information/ events/CPD

• RTPI events calendar
• Get involved: email the healthy communities interest group

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Policy, Practice, Networks

Author:

Catherine Middleton

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

19-Apr-12

Sections:

What Planning Does

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