Healthy Urban Design Review

Our Healthy Design work interconnects and comes out of our Health Assessment work.

We Health Proof Masterplans and Regeneration Schemes by critically analysing and evaluating them using the latest healthy urban design principles and healthy design research and practice.

This is different from doing a health impact assessment as the aim is to analyse and evaluate the details of the proposed masterplan or scheme and ensure that key health design principles are embedded into the design vision, objectives and frameworks being used by the architects, planners, engineers and contractors to implement and operational the masterplan or scheme.

The aim of the Healthy Design Review or Health Proofing Design Review is to enhance quality of life, reduce health and social inequalities, promote health equity and and maximize the health and well-being impacts of urban and rural spaces and places.

We tailor our approach based on what you want and the local or international principles and guidance you are using to review masterplans and schemes.

Healthy Urban Design Research

Research in Healthy Design and Health Proofing Design focuses on three things, and we have experience of all of them:

• Critically analysing newly developed Planning Authority healthy design principle planning documents before they are published.

• Reviewing the state-of-art and state-of-science on healthy urban and rural design.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of current guidance on healthy urban design and analyse the barrier and facilitating to its effective use.

Healthy Urban Design Capacity Building

We love teaching others about healthy urban design and are happy to do online and on-site training on healthy urban design for you and your organisation.

We design and tailor the course to the timescale and the content that you want.

We can also build capacity through mentoring you and your organisation using a ‘learning by doing’ approach to successfully develop and apply healthy urban design principles to masterplans and regeneration schemes.