GPN5: Delivering Healthy Communities
RTPI (2009)
Highlights the crucial role planning has to play in developing sustainable and healthy communities. Includes summaries of the key issues relating to:
- Partnership and inclusion;
- Healthy neighbourhoods;
- Planning for active lifestyles;
- Protecting the environment; and
- Design for safety and wellbeing.
It goes on to make a series of recommendations for improved ways of working. This guidance is relevant to both the planning and health communities across the UK.
Transport Planning Paper
Supporting paper detailing the inter-relationship between transport and health. It includes a checklist of questions that should be considered when assessing the health implications of transport policies or proposals.
The development of this guidance follows the release of a Health and Spatial Planning Policy Statement by the RTPI in 2007.
Contributors
Rob Ballantyne - Health and Social Care Consultant
Dr Martin Birley Birley HIA Health Impact Associates
Neil Blackshaw NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit (HUDU)
Dr Caroline Brown - Heriot Watt University
Dr Amelia Lake and Tim Townshend University of Newcastle
Fionnula Lennon Homes and Communities Agency
Brian Sore RTPI
Paul Tomlinson - Scott Wilson Ltd
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