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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...

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, ...

A River Runs Through It

I’ve always had a fascination with rivers and with cities, which is why I live in London on the river Thames and belong to a local rowing...

Homes, Places and Health – an interview with Lord Nigel Crisp

Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords where he co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global...

…and we have the data to prove it. Now what?

One of the positive contributions of the Covid era to both global and local health has been the vast collection of data on who, how, when...

How can local communities jump on to the ESG bandwagon?

While more and more companies commit to sustainable ESG – Environmental, Social & Governance – programmes and more corporate assets are...

Can Integrated Care Systems bring health & communities back into the planning process?

As of July 1st, the NHS will be managed through a series of Integrated Care Systems. The NHS describes these as “partnerships of...

What does an ethical property developer look like?

Chris Brown, Executive Chair & Founder Igloo Regeneration Only 2% of people would trust a property developer to behave honestly according...

Developers for Healthy Places: a collective of health-promoting property organisations

We are experiencing an unprecedented intersection of planning, development and public health in our government policy, local communities,...

New approaches to promoting health in local communities

The growth in health inequalities across London and the country has focused many of us on how to improve accessibility to health services...

It’s time to put health at the heart of planning decisions

We’re now all too familiar with the catchy phrases and the repeated taglines presented to us by the government each day – “Levelling up”,...

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