Planning and Health Workshop
The Riverside, Derby: 13 July 2010
A half-day workshop for planners and health professionals in the East Midlands on how planners and health staff can work together towards healthy and sustainable environments.
The aims of the workshop were:
- To raise awareness of public health issues for planners, and the importance of spatial planning issues for health professionals.
- To identify ways in which locally we can improve our ability to ‘Build In Health’.
Presentations
- Public Health & the challenge of obesity - Kath Childs, Consultant in Public Health, East Midlands Public Health Directorate
- ‘Future Health’ - Planning, health and sustainability - Peter Maxwell, Head of Better Public Buildings, CABE
- Experience from SW Region - Peter Ashcroft, Physical Activity Regional Lead, Department of Health South West
- Healthy Planning? Lessons from the London Healthy Urban Development Unit - Neil Blackshaw, former Director of HUDU
- Sustainable Travel Towns. Results and lessons - Polly Roberts, Department for Transport, Cycling & Sustainable Travel
- What did planners & health staff say? - Rob Ballantyne, Planning & Health Consultant
- Planning and health - Fiona Forgham, Govt Office East Midlands