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Improving Health through the Built Environment – panel discussion at the NHS ICS/ICB Congress
The GIANT Health event, now in its tenth year, took place earlier this week, and I was invited to convene a panel for the NHS ICS/ICB...
Dec 8, 20234 min read


Borrow some medical practice to build healthy homes and places
This past year has seen real progress in demonstrating how our built environment - the homes & places where we live – impacts our...
Oct 12, 20234 min read


Connecting generations through houses & places
Earlier this week I came home to find on my doormat a “special invitation” from Audley Villages to visit a newly developed “luxury...
Sep 29, 20234 min read


We need to talk about Toilets
When I wrote over a year ago about the need to rethink public toilets, a journalist I know told me that the issue would not attract wider...
Aug 24, 20233 min read


First, do no harm
Anyone involved in medicine and the provision of healthcare will recognise this phrase and its origins in Hippocrates – it embodies the...
Aug 9, 20232 min read


The Stag Brewery regeneration –a planning test for our time?
A planning application to redevelop the Stag Brewery in Mortlake was approved by Richmond Council last week. The largest regeneration...
Jul 26, 20235 min read


The coalitions are coming
Just when I thought it wasn’t possible, not one but two coalitions of Built Environment organisations have announced their arrival in the...
Jun 23, 20234 min read


When dots don’t connect
Earlier this year when Secretary of State for Levelling up Michael Gove suggested that a rethought approach to planning education could...
Jun 9, 20234 min read


Translating knowledge & bringing clarity to Londoners
An interview with Leanne Tritton, chair of the London Society As Chair of the London Society, Leanne Tritton has developed a formidable...
Apr 17, 20236 min read


Health services must be prioritised in communities undergoing regeneration
Some recent events in Kent illustrate a disconnect between planning for new housing development and providing essential health services...
Apr 6, 20234 min read


Show me the Evidence
The recent consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework (now closed) has brought forth diverse opinions from across the...
Mar 27, 20233 min read


Everybody’s talking about planning
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about”, said Oscar Wilde, “and that is not being talked about”. Events in the...
Mar 7, 20234 min read


Health Street: Building Health Creation into High Street Renewal
As our understanding of the connections between place and health continues to grow in the post-Covid era, we’re beginning to see...
Feb 27, 20234 min read


Community engagement – a tale of two London boroughs
The London Forum welcomed two experienced planning professionals last month to present how community engagement is going in their...
Feb 9, 20235 min read


Placeshaping, Communities, Health and Wellbeing: an interview with Professor Kevin Fenton CBE
There is perhaps no one more informed about the integration of place, health & wellbeing in London than Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, ...
Jan 22, 20236 min read


What does a School of Place look like?
At the end of the year, Secretary of State for Housing and Levelling Up Michael Gove revealed that his mission would be enhanced with a...
Jan 10, 20233 min read


Wild Abandon
How an overseas developer has let down the local community of Mortlake, and how LBRuT can save it The photo you see above is looking...
Nov 10, 20224 min read


Question Time on planning
Tomorrow sees the installation of a new government here in the UK. Gloom and Doom? Or possibility and opportunity? As the PM and the new...
Sep 5, 20222 min read


The Regeneration of Earls Court
An interview with Rebekah Paczek, Director of Public Affairs and Community Relations, Earls Court Development Company A strange thing...
Aug 19, 20225 min read


How Regeneration is attracting new participants to Local Politics
Ann Marie Sheehan, a resident of Mortlake & Barnes Common in SW London, explains how two major regeneration schemes are inspiring a new...
Apr 27, 20224 min read
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