RTPI Conferences

Development planning

Planning for Healthy Communities Conference

Date	14 October 2010
Duration	1 Day
Price	GBP 449 + VAT
Location	London
Venue	Venue not yet confirmed
Registration	9.00-9.30
Close of Seminar
Our code	35612
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• Why you should attend this conference
• Benefits of atending
• Who should attend?
• Conference programme:
• Conference Chair
• Conference Speakers
• Quotes from previous delegates...
• CPD requirements
• Outsourcing and event management service

Why you should attend this conference

With the Marmot Report on Health Inequalities in December 2009 addressing the relationship of the built environment, sustainable development and health, swiftly followed by the establishment of the NICE work preparing recommendations on spatial planning and health, this year promises to provide a significant change in the way that health is considered in the planning for healthy communities. Other reports from CLG/DH as well as the draft PPS on Planning for a Natural and Healthy Environment also illustrate how health considerations are increasingly being embedded into mainstream planning. This one-day conference is aimed at those in planning, urban design and waste management. It should also be of interest to those from the health sector seeking to engage with the planning community to enhance contributions towards improved public health

Benefits of atending

This workshop will help you:

1. Better understand how planning can contribute towards the health agenda
2. Integrating health into urban design
3. Appreciate the implications that flow from the Marmot Report
4. Learn about the research from CLG and the Department of Health
5. Have an update on the health perspectives on recycling and waste to energy

Who should attend?

• Planners
• Developers
• Urban designers
• Landscape architects
• Waste management professionals
• Health professionals

Conference programme:

9.00 Coffee and registration

9.30 Welcome and introduction by the Chair

Paul Tomlinson, Associate, Scott Wilson Ltd

9.40 Planning to deliver health with the health professionals

• Understanding the NHS and who to contact
• Department of health priorities
• Role of planning in addressing inequalities and physical fitness

Paul Plant, Deputy Regional Director Public Health, Regional Public Health Group – London

10.20 Marmot review of health inequalities: sustainable development

• Creating a healthy future
• Exploiting low-carbon solutions
• Healthy transport interventions
• Planning for a sustainable health system

Anna Coote, Head of Social Policy, The New Economics Foundation

11.00 Coffee and networking

11.20 Research evidence for healthy urban planning

• Evidence for healthy urban planning
• Housing, regeneration and health
• Transport and health
• Greenspace, amenities, essential services and health
• Urban sprawl and health

Hilary Thomson, Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow

12.00 How well is planning delivering public well-being?

• What is the role of spatial planning in delivering health and wellbeing outcomes?
• Perspectives of health and planning professionals
• What can we learn from good practice?
• What further measures should the planning and health sectors take to improve the contribution of spatial planning to health and wellbeing outcomes?

John Pounder, Director, Planning, Colin Buchannan and Partners

12.40 Panel discussion

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Tools to design a healthy environment

• Increasing walking
• Greenspace audits
• Design guides
• Place making

Richard Smith, Head of Business and Consultancy Services, Living Streets

2.30 Can urban forestry help deliver healthy communities?

• Urban forestry and health policies
• Health inequalities and access to woods
• Potential mechanisms explaining the relationship between woods and green space and health
• Who uses urban forests and green space – social distribution
• Opportunities for urban forestry to contribute to healthy communities – planning, partnerships, interventions

Liz O’Brien, Deputy Head of Social and Economic Research Group, Forest Research, Research Agency of the Forestry Commission

3.00 Recycling and waste to energy: a health perspective

• Recycling and health
• Waste technologies and health
• Social marketing for recycling
• Engaging the public

Mary Lyons, Independent Consultant

3.30 Health as a material consideration

• Health as an evolving planning consideration
• Considering health within Local Development Documents

Bruce Braithwaite

4.00 Panel discussion

4.20 Chair’s closing comments

Paul Tomlinson

Conference Chair

Paul Tomlinson is an Associate at Scott Wilson where he leads work in environmental policy and assessment. He has a particular focus on the development of assessment methodologies and processes that ensure that the health consequences of plans, programmes and projects are assessed within either Sustainability Appraisals/Strategic Environmental Assessments or Environmental Impact Assessments. Paul also leads the RTPI work on health and spatial planning and is a member of the NICE Programme Development Group considering health and spatial planning.

Conference Speakers

Anna Coote is Head of Social Policy at nef (new economics foundation). A leading analyst, writer and advocate in the field of social policy, she was also Commissioner for Health with the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2000-2009.

Mary Lyons has worked as a lecturer and researcher with several overseas, as well as UK, based organisations for the last 20 years and has a Masters degree in Public Health. Until April 2010, Mary headed up a team of researchers exploring issues relating to the links between health and the environment and sustainability.

Liz O’Brien is Deputy Head of the Social and Economic Research Group at Forest Research which is the research agency of the Forestry Commission. Her work focuses on the well-being benefits people gain from engagement with trees, woods and forests.

John Pounder is a Director of Planning at Colin Buchanan. Prior to joining Buchanan’s, John was a Planning Manager at the South East England Regional Assembly where he was responsible for developing the South East Plan Implementation Plan and managing LDF/RSS conformity issues.

Hilary Thomson works at the MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit based at the University of Glasgow. Hilary’s general research interests are around gathering and translating research evidence to inform healthy public policy. This work has included the use of qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate community interventions, systematic reviews, and translation of research synthesis for use in policy and practice.

Paul Plant is Deputy Regional Director, Public Health, for the Regional Public Health Group, London

Richard Smith is a sustainable transport specialist with national charity Living Streets, which works with partners to create safe, attractive enjoyable streets. Richard’s role involves overseeing the consultancy service, which helps councils engage with communities to improve streets and public spaces.

Quotes from previous delegates...

"Well presented – good range of speakers and content"

"Very informative and a great introduction to planning and health"

CPD requirements

This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements.

Outsourcing and event management service

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