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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...

Mar 7, 20234 min read

Planning

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...

Health Street: Building Health Creation into High Street Renewal

Feb 27, 20234 min read

Regeneration

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

Jan 22, 20236 min read

Regeneration

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, ...

Dec 6, 20224 min read

Public Health

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...

Oct 27, 20223 min read

Health

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?

Oct 7, 20224 min read

Regeneration

…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?

Jul 27, 20223 min read

Regeneration

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?

Jun 13, 20223 min read

Community Engagement

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?

Mar 30, 20222 min read

Housing

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...

Feb 18, 20223 min read

Health

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,...

Oct 20, 20213 min read

Health

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...

Jul 6, 20214 min read

Health

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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