We all deserve to live in a Blue Zone
A new docuseries dropped on Netflix last week called “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones”. The series is conceived, produced, and...
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Aug 24, 20233 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...
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Aug 9, 20232 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...
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Jul 16, 20233 min read
Homes, Places and the Peckham Experiment
Last year I interviewed Lord Nigel Crisp about housing and its impact on our individual and collective health, and how the scale of this...
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Jun 9, 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...
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Apr 6, 20234 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...
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Mar 27, 20233 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...
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Feb 27, 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...
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Jan 22, 20236 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, ...
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Nov 22, 20224 min read
How listening to locals generates good health: a visit to the Bromley-by-Bow Centre
I visited the Bromley-by-Bow Centre (BBBC) last week for a presentation, tour and chat with its insights director Dan Hopewell. Quite by...
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Oct 27, 20223 min read
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...
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Oct 7, 20224 min read
…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...
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Jun 13, 20223 min read
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...
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Jun 2, 20223 min read
The Paradox of measuring Community Impact
Several discussions during last week’s Restitch Summit centred on the “ecosystem” of community regeneration, exploring those systems and...
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Feb 18, 20223 min read
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,...
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Dec 8, 20215 min read
A planning renaissance?
Clare Delmar, founder of Listen to Locals, spoke about her experience of planning with members of Planning Aid London at its AGM on...
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Oct 20, 20213 min read
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...
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Jul 6, 20214 min read
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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May 17, 20213 min read
The Health Impact Assessment: an Opportunity for Community Engagement
Clare Delmar, Listen to Locals Many of us see the pandemic as a reset opportunity for the development of local communities, with many...
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