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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.   

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Thank you!

Jim.mcmanus@hertfordshire.gov.uk

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