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Making a difference in Housing, Health and Planning

12 November 2024 at 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM / Yorkshire / National / Online
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Date
12 November 2024 at 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Price from
Free
Organiser
RTPI Yorkshire | [email protected]

Core CPD Framework:

- Housing

- Health and Wellbeing

- 1 1/2 CPD Hours

 

 

 

Making a difference in Housing, Health, and Planning

Event Description  

Can we really make a difference to our health, homes, and the built environment through the planning system?

Hosted by the Royal Town and Planning Institute, this webinar has been developed with Public Health partners in the North, including the Yorkshire and Humber Association of Directors of Public Health Planning Healthy Places Community of Improvement.

Improving health has long been important to many planners and urban designers, and it could be argued that healthy planning is as old as planning itself.

Health features in both national planning policy and in many local development plans across the country. We are also seeing a number of 'healthy places' roles developing in Local Authorities that span both public health and planning, showing that there is an opportunity and desire to work across these two themes.

Despite this, and despite some great examples of healthy development nationally, we still see homes and communities being built that are not designed to improve health. They are still car dependent, and disconnected from the essential services, infrastructure and amenities that are the building blocks of a health. We are also still building communities that lack sufficient green space, are unaffordable or unsustainable, and that could do so much more to meet our social and environmental goals.

Why is this? What are the issues and challenges, and how can Planning and Public Health teams work together to create the healthy, sustainable communities of the future?

Speakers and topics include: 

  • Reflections on Planning and Health, John Craig, Former Head of Planning, Hull City Council 
  • Keynote, Rebecca Fletcher, Director of Public Health, Oldham 
  • Health Impact Assessments: planning policy for new developments, Tom Ellis, Planning Consultant, Turley
  • Partnerships for promoting health through the planning system, Michelle Saunders and Rachel Richards, Public Health, North Yorkshire Council