With a new year comes a media spotlight on self-improvement, “healthy ageing” and “longevity” feature highly in both social and...

Happy new year!   Here’s hoping that sincere wishes for happiness and prosperity in 2025 are met with acknowledgment of some significant...

It wasn’t long ago that these words would look out of place in the same sentence. Why should property developers care about health, or...

On April 15, 2019 the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris was severely damaged in a devastating fire – and this week, five years on, its...

Since my return last month from Uganda and my blog about  how participation in music making has impacted the health of local communities...

The Life Sciences industry is comprised of companies and organisations that research, develop and manufacture pharmaceuticals,...

Our new government has pledged to limit tax rises while at the same time promising to invest in our NHS, education and energy...

There’s an ad going round social media this week by the city of Oslo, presented with irony by a droll Norwegian who asks if Oslo is “even...

Over the last year I’ve seen more and more reports of the tensions in local communities created by new housing development and the...

Earlier this month, Asda unveiled plans for a “transformational Mixed-Use Redevelopment of its ten-acre Park Royal site in North West...

Earlier this month, the Home Builders Federation revealed that over the last three years, more than £50 million of taxpayer money was...

Along with wet weather, April came in with a blast of Nimby v Yimby hot air. So far this month, we’ve learned that Keir Starmer has...

A parallel universe, also known as an alternate universe, parallel world, parallel dimension, or alternate reality, is a hypothetical...

2024 is starting off with a bang for London’s public toilet campaigners. As conversations came to a head (!) toward the end of last year...

I first met Michael Edwards in 2021 through Just Space, a network of London-based community organisations which he and others set up in...

A friend came to visit last weekend and, as we set off on a walk along the Thames towpath from Mortlake, SW London, she asked what was...

Last Thursday, 23rd November, I joined a panel of “experts” to answer questions from the GLA Oversight Committee about best practice when...

I’m delighted to share this blog from Josh Artus at Centric Lab. What they’re doing in rethinking and redesigning Health Impact...

At a time when evidence is fast increasing on how the built environment impacts our individual and collective health, it is regrettable...

Earlier this week I came home to find on my doormat a “special invitation” from Audley Villages to visit a newly developed “luxury...