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Member discounts available
Join us for a cross-disciplinary, action-focused conference that brings together researchers, designers, policymakers and partners to showcase how evidence-based landscape-led approaches maximise health co-benefits, shape investment, inform design decisions, and deliver healthier, equitable towns and developments.
The event will provide attendees with insights from the latest research and a range of approaches and tools that will help them deliver long-term value in urban development.
Keynote Speaker
Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire.
Knowledge and Insights
During the event you will discover:
- How health and design research and evidence has been used to shape successful urban development and policy.
- The mutual benefits of landscape design and research-practitioner policy partnerships, and practical ways of working with communities to create healthy places.
- The policy and practice challenges of embedding health co-benefits into urban planning and where research evidence can make a difference.
- The current state and future direction of policy and research on urban health, design and planning.
Who should attend
This event is for all who inform or influence urban planning policy, decisions and practice, including local government representatives, policy makers, think-tanks, researchers and consultants.
It’s also for urban planning professionals from the public and private sectors, such as landscape architects and designers, members of the Landscape Institute, and those from aligned professions such as planning.
Health professionals and researchers with an interest in strengthening partnerships with project design, delivery and evaluation.
Sponsored by
Agenda
9:30 – 10:00 – Registration
10:05 – 11:05 – Keynote & Session
11:10 – 11:30 – Exhibition (stands, coffee and networking)
11:35 – 12:35 – Choice of three sessions
- Creating healthy neighbourhoods: nature and the public realm.
- How urban housing developments can support health and wellbeing
- Landscape and transport: how to landscape-led regeneration improves community wellbeing
12:40 – 13:40 – Lunch break and networking
13:45 – 14:45 – Choice of three sessions
- Creating healthy neighbourhoods: nature and the public realm.
- How urban housing developments can support health and wellbeing
- Landscape and transport: how to landscape-led regeneration improves community wellbeing
14:50 – 15:10 – Exhibition (stands, coffee and networking)
15:15 – 16:15 – Final panel discussion
16:15 – 16:30 – Closing remarks
16:30 – 17:30 – Networking reception
Tracy Brabin
Mayor
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Kevin Fenton
President
UK Faculty of Public Health
Professor Ruth Hunter
Professor of Public Health and Planetary Health
Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Sarah Rogers
Professor of Health Informatics
University of Liverpool
Professor Jenna Panter
Research Professor and Programme Leader
University of Cambridge
Pete Swift
Director and Founder
Plan-it
