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What’s in a name? when a health assessment is not an ‘HIA’

What’s in a name? when a health assessment is not an ‘HIA’. Margaret Douglas Martin Higgins NHS Lothian. Scottish Planning policy. Spatial planning decisions have a range of impacts on health Recently streamlined planning policy to a single high level Scottish Planning policy

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What’s in a name? when a health assessment is not an ‘HIA’

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  1. What’s in a name?when a health assessment is not an ‘HIA’ Margaret Douglas Martin Higgins NHS Lothian

  2. Scottish Planning policy • Spatial planning decisions have a range of impacts on health • Recently streamlined planning policy to a single high level Scottish Planning policy • Little mention of health • National priority is sustainable economic growth • Strategic Environmental Assessments – guidance restricts health impacts to those related to physical environment

  3. Chief Planner’s advice on HIA • ‘The Scottish Government has no current intentions of putting Health ImpactAssessments on a statutory footing … • ‘Any decision on whether to introduce Health Impact Assessments is for the relevant planning authority but, should you decide to introduce such assessments, you should think carefully about their scope, the developments to which they will apply, who will be responsible for carrying out the assessments and whether the skills exist within the authority or can be readily accessed to comment authoritatively on the assessments. • ‘A number of planning authorities have, quite understandably, expressed concern about the challenges in implementing the new planning system. The introduction of Health Impact Assessments can only add to those challenges.’ Letter to all Heads of Planning in 2008

  4. Scotland

  5. HIA of Pennywell masterplan Sources: Daisybush, flickr; Indymedia.

  6. Health technical report on Waterfront and Leith Area Development Framework (ADF)

  7. Pennywell Stakeholders workshop Derived research questions Collated evidence: Profile of routine data Literature review Consultation with groups of stakeholders Identified impacts and made recommendations 9 months 59 pages including appendices Waterfront Stakeholders workshop Identified key issues Collated evidence: Routine data Limited literature review No further consultation Summarised issues and made recommendations 3 months 16 page report, no appendices Processes used

  8. Impacts of the Pennywell masterplan • Improved housing and energy efficiency • Territorialism and antisocial behaviour • Tenure mix • Walk-ability and Parking • Greenspace • Poor perception of shopping centre • Loss of community centre • Severance effect of Pennywell Road • Rents and maintenance • Construction • Employment

  9. Issues in the Waterfront ADF • Area deprivation: • Granton • Newhaven • Leith • Housing and neighbourhoods • Connectivity and movement • Environmental quality

  10. Impact on the masterplan • Shared aspirations for walk-able environment and greenspace BUT • Council parking minimum standards • Opposition to Home Zones • Limited scope of master plan itself • Overall little impact on masterplan • Most recommendations were not directed to masterplan itself

  11. Impact of the ADF report • Chapter on key health issues in draft ADF report: • Air quality • Neighbourhood design, connectivity and physical activity • Flooding • Greenspace • Crime • Community resilience • Involvement in further planning frameworks

  12. It’s not what you do but how you do it… • Support from Head of Planning • No intermediary • No formal steering group but membership of project board • Fit with timescales • HIA methods but a name that fits • Continue to raise awareness and work upstream

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