urban and spatial planning and health 27 november
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The Hertfordshire contribution to the Midlands and East Learning day on Spatial Planning and Public Health 27 November 2013TRANSCRIPT
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Jim McManus
Director of Public Health
Peter Wright
Health Improvement Principal
Planning and Health – A Hertfordshire Perspective
Planning and Health – Putting health in its rightful Place Wednesday 27th November 2013
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• Decrease in net additional homes completed (7%)
• 119% increase in approvals for planning applications that include green technology
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Key Points
• At the start of a developmental journey
• 11 Authorities
• Green Belt issues
• Core Strategy
• Multi-agency approach in development
• TCPA work
• PH Strategy approved
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Working
• Multi-tier area (County, District, Town/Parish)
• Cross-cutting issues
• Develop portfolio as one portfolio working across tiers and topics
• Complex issue of Green Belt
• Embed into PH Strategy
• Mainstream PH approach across various players
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The Hertfordshire Public Health Board
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Starting point
• TCPA – reuniting planning with health project Phase 2
• Links to three “hot topics” we need to work on in Herts and some “obvious” quick wins
• Herts briefing here http://www.tcpa.org.uk/data/files/Health_and_planning/Health_Phase_2/TCPA_FINAL_Hertfordshire_briefing_ONLY.pdf
• Herts alcohol and planning stuff here
• http://www.tcpa.org.uk/data/files/Health_and_planning/Health_Phase_2/McMANUS.pdf
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TCPA
• Develop planning policy to tackle three public health concerns facing Hertfordshire:
– the prevalence of hot food takeaways,
– alcohol consumption
– and access to high quality green spaces
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Rationale
• The provision of current and future healthcare services and infrastructure
• The removal of environmental “things” which negatively affect human health
• The provision of those things which have positive impact on human health
• Building and embedding a culture of Public Health approaches across Hertfordshire
• Quick Wins
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Ultimate aim: The Public Realm as a PH Portfolio
• Planning
• Countryside as setting for PH
• Housing
• Environmental infrastructure
• Tobacco Control (smoke free playgrounds)
• Sustainability
• Safety (20mph limits scrutiny)
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Quick Win: Smokefree Parks
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Quick Win: The 6 Levels of Public Health
1. Biological
2. Behavioural
3. Social (interpersonal)
4. Legislative / Political
5. Environmental
6. Structural
• Every PH report in Hertfordshire going to members now uses these levels
• Articulates who should do what
• Enables focus and action
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Hot Topic: Planning in Broxbourne
• Obesity in core strategy
• Planning approach to Obesity
– Children
– Adults
• Whole System Obesity Pilot for Herts
• Sustainable Community Strategy and Core Strategy has Health Ambitions
• Inputs into Herts Quality of Life report
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Hot Topic: Alcohol
• Licensing issue
• Crosses 3 County portfolios and 10 Districts
• Police and Crime Commissioner
• New governance workshop
• New Strategy, New Governance, New Approach
• Inputs into Herts Quality of Life report
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Hertfordshire Delivery Model
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Mainstreaming: Building Futures
• Building Futures is an evolving web-based guide, designed to provide practical, user-friendly and up to date guidance for planning officers, developers and the general public on how to make development in Hertfordshire more sustainable and of a higher quality in design terms. eleven local authorities of Hertfordshire
• create a guide relevant to the Hertfordshire context, rather than metropolitan locations, which most central government guidance tends to focus on.
http://www.hertslink.org/buildingfutures/
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Building Futures is an evolving web-based guide, designed to provide practical, user-friendly and up to date guidance for planning officers, developers and the general public on how to make development in Hertfordshire more sustainable and of a higher quality in design terms. The intention of the eleven local authorities of Hertfordshire has been to create a guide which is relevant to the Hertfordshire context, rather than metropolitan locations, which most central government guidance tends to focus on.
http://www.hertslink.org/buildingfutures/
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Thank you!
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