wellbeing

Healthy collaboration: Why planners and health professionals should work together

17.05.2019

England | Health | public health england | wellbeing

Aimee Stimpson discusses why planners and health care professionals need to work together to create healthy places for people to live

Appeal: 13th takeaway would harm vitality but not health

15.03.2019

Matt Moody

Health | London | Takeaway | wellbeing

Plans for a takeaway near Chrisp Street Market in Poplar – where eight per cent of units are already takeaways – would harm the vitality of the area, an inspector has ruled, but not the health of children...

Careers Month 2019

29.01.2019

The Planner

February is Careers Month with The Planner, and we'll be running a series of themed features, opinion pieces, case studies and advice articles throughout the month, to accompany our Careers Survey

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Careers Month: How do YOU find happiness at work?

29.01.2019

Freddie Bell

We often talk about workplace happiness, but what does it actually involve? Freddie Bell of Mattinson Partnership argues that, when it comes to wellbeing, a change can be as good as a rest...

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...

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