This past year has seen real progress in demonstrating how our built environment - the homes & places where we live – impacts our...

A new docuseries dropped on Netflix last week called “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones”. The series is conceived, produced, and...

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...

Anyone involved in medicine and the provision of healthcare will recognise this phrase and its origins in Hippocrates – it embodies the...

Last year I interviewed Lord Nigel Crisp about housing and its impact on our individual and collective health, and how the scale of this...

Earlier this year when Secretary of State for Levelling up Michael Gove suggested that a rethought approach to planning education could...

Some recent events in Kent illustrate a disconnect between planning for new housing development and providing essential health services...

The recent consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework (now closed) has brought forth diverse opinions from across the...

As our understanding of the connections between place and health continues to grow in the post-Covid era, we’re beginning to see...

There is perhaps no one more informed about the integration of place, health & wellbeing in London than Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, ...

I visited the Bromley-by-Bow Centre (BBBC) last week for a presentation, tour and chat with its insights director Dan Hopewell. Quite by...

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

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...

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

Several discussions during last week’s Restitch Summit centred on the “ecosystem” of community regeneration, exploring those systems and...

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

Clare Delmar, founder of Listen to Locals, spoke about her experience of planning with members of Planning Aid London at its AGM on...

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

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

Clare Delmar, Listen to Locals Many of us see the pandemic as a reset opportunity for the development of local communities, with many...