wellbeing

Housing quality, not quantity, is the key to good health

03.01.2019

Jim Shannon

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Healthy Homes and Buildings | Housing | UK | wellbeing

Healthy buildings are the key to wellbeing, says Jim Shannon.

3 point plan: Elisabeth Williams MRTPI

20.12.2018

The Planner

A planner explains how she would change the English planning system

How the Planning (Scotland) Bill is shaking up Holyrood

11.10.2018

Monica Lennon

The Planning (Scotland) Bill is producing levels of engagement by MSPs not seen since the early days of the Scottish parliament, says MSP and RTPI member Monica Lennon. This can only be good for democracy...

News report: Can we design well-being into modern cities?

02.10.2018

Catherine Early

After attending the Valuing Landscape Conference 2018: Connecting People, Places and Nature, Catherine Early reports on how planners and landscape designers can ensure that tomorrow’s...

Is spatial planning bad for our health?

11.09.2018

Hugh Barton

Research suggests that health outcomes are strongly linked to income inequality, and reinforced by quality of place. So, Hugh Barton asks, are the spatial planning decisions we make bad for our health?...

Can we put a value on landscape – and the planning that enhances it?

10.09.2018

John Acres

We all know that the quality of the landscape around us – built or natural – contributes to our wellbeing, but it's hard to quantify in material terms. Planning must seize the...

Maintaining open spaces and natural landscapes contributes to public wellbeing / Shutterstock_670965427

Welsh society boosted by public sector planning, says Griffiths

07.06.2018

Laura Edgar

The Welsh Government and RTPI Cymru have announced that the planning system directly contributed at least £2.35 billion to Welsh society in 2016/17.

UK parks deliver £34bn of health benefits, suggests report

09.05.2018

Laura Edgar

Parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom provide people with over £34 billion of health and well-being benefits, according to charity Fields in Trust.

MIPIM: Paving the way for global cities

27.03.2018

Simon Stanion

MIPIM was a reminder to planners and the property industry of the need for policy and practice to adapt to the demands of modern cities, says Simon Stanion

New analysis: Is planning fit for the 21st century?

05.12.2017

Simon Wicks

Simon Wicks reports from November’s 2017 Young Planners’ Conference in Manchester.

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