Introduction to ATLAS West Midlands Region

							                        Healthy Communities Research Forum


          Planning for health and well-being in the
                        growth areas


    Tim Chapman
    Sustainable Communities Specialist, ATLAS
    20 May 2009



Advisory Team for Large Applications
 Introducing ATLAS

    Project Development and Delivery
    Guidance & Dissemination
    Effective Collaboration
    Planning System Development:

  Critical Success Factors
    – Clarity of Vision
    – Robust Process and Project
       management
    – Strong corporate leadership and
       buy-in

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 Growth areas: Integrating
 health and well-being


  What is well integrated?
       – What you need
       – When you need it
  Project examples
  Useful tools
  NICE Spatial Planning research




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 Health, well-being and
 infrastructure
  Relationship between public
   health and town planning
       – Shared origins;
       – Wider determinants;
       – Spatial Planning system post
         2004

 Infrastructure:
  Type: Social; Transport; Utilities
  Arrangements: amount, type,
   timing, location, funding,
   management
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 Integrating plans
 & strategies


  Place Shaping agenda
  Sustainable Community
   Strategy
  Local Development
   Framework (incl need for
   infrastructure plans)
  Local Area Agreement
  Service Provider strategies
  Planning Together 2 (CLG)

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Cambourne new settlement, Cambridgeshire
     Cambourne: Facts




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 Cambourne: Lessons in
 Infrastructure


    Timing of delivery
    Location
    Gaps in provision
    Forecasting & capacity

  A success?



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 West of Waterlooville
 Community Management


  Working out:
       – What is needed, when &
         where
       – How it will be provided &
         managed
  Integration
       – Of communities
       – Of services
  Capturing in S106

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 North West Cambridge



  Two separate but
   related sites
  Processes:
       – Social Infrastructure
         Working Group
       – Rapid Impact
         Assessment,
       – Social Infrastructure
         Matrix
  Outcomes: co-location
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 Tools, approaches and
 organisations
  ATLAS Social Infrastructure Matrix
  Milton Keynes Partnership
  Development Trust Association
  HUDU Health and planning tools
  Culture sport and planning toolkit
  PAS infrastructure planning
   resource book
  Sport England Kit Bag
  Future Communities

  But ultimately a lack of hard
   evidence…..
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 NICE Public Health research on
 Spatial Planning
 Focus
      – Relationship of health and planning
      – How well is planning delivering healthier communities?
      – How well do SEA, SA, EIA and HIA work?


 Process of research

 Opportunities to engage

 Completion: May 2011

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 Source Material and
 Questions
 The ATLAS Guide                                     www.atlasplanning.com

 NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit
                            www.healthyurbandevelopment.nhs.uk

 Culture and Sport Planning Toolkit              www.living-places.org.uk/

 Milton Keynes Partnership               www.miltonkeynespartnership.info/

 Planning Advisory Service                               www.pas.gov.uk

 Future Communities                            www.futurecommunities.net/

 NICE Spatial Planning research
                                  www.nice.org.uk/guidance/PHG/Wave20/55

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