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Health and wellbeing are significantly influenced by how professionals plan, design and manage the environment.
This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisions. Supported by examples of policy and approaches, it focuses on implementation and delivery, and sets out what is needed to achieve healthier environments within the parameters of legislative and policy frameworks.
It demonstrates how when we harness the art and science of public health spatial planning, can we begin to effect changes to the policies and decisions that shape population health.
The professional workforce is the driving force behind planning for health. Public sector managers and political leadership recognise the importance of having the capacity and capability to work more effectively to influence decisions on policy and planning applications. Private sector directors recognise the financial win–win of investing in the upskilling and reorientation of the workforce to maximise the potential of the wellbeing consultancy market. This chapter captures the emerging pivotal role of public health spatial planners in bridging professional boundaries and the training, education and the job descriptions necessary to upskill the future generations of the workforce. It builds on the established respective planning and public health skills and competency frameworks identified in , with shared responsibilities as ambassadors of the profession to ensure that activities are undertaken for the benefit and protection of population health and wellbeing. The chapter illustrates key lessons with three insider stories from Angie Juke in Stockport, Dr Rachael Marsh and Carolyn Sharpe as public health registrars, and Dr John Vick about his team of healthy development coordinators in Tennessee.
Health and wellbeing are significantly influenced by how professionals plan, design and manage the environment.
This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisions. Supported by examples of policy and approaches, it sets out what is needed to achieve healthier environments within the parameters of legislative and policy frameworks.
A function of public health spatial planning practice is to help identify and secure value from development to achieve health outcomes. The objective of procuring evidence to support healthy policy creation and decisions on planning applications is being able to identify value from development. This will allow public authorities to secure tangible contributions from developers and those who finance and build those places to support healthy place creation. This chapter describes the principles and processes of planning gain to secure the necessary financial and system investment in elements that promote health. It will highlight the planning mechanisms for financial contributions, with examples of where local authorities have helped secured contributions for health benefit. The chapter presents two insider stories from Andrew Taylor of Countryside Properties and Harry Knibb and Olga Turner Baker to illustrate the opportunities and commitment to leverage value from the Acton Gardens regeneration area and Kent Nature and Wellbeing Centre development to promote health and wellbeing outcomes through nature.
This chapter explores some of the impacts that environments have on the wider costs that are incurred by society when areas are not planned, designed and built with the underpinning conditions that promote health and wellbeing. Both consumers and the commercial sector increasingly understand and value the benefits of well-designed projects that place a premium on design features that are also good for health. However, there are multiple stakeholders involved in planning projects, and balancing competing priorities across these groups is difficult. The challenge is to identify and articulate how benefits can be realised in ways that maximise the win–wins for all. The chapter gives examples from the development of a regional transport strategy, low-traffic neighbourhoods and the impact of gentrification on communities. From a public health perspective, it is important that practitioners understand the local process and those specific stages in which they can have maximum impact on the development of policies or specific projects. The chapter concludes with some observations on how to develop a local health and planning agenda.
This chapter discusses the role of place and neighbourhood in discourses of social housing. A key theme is the assertion that concentrated social housing creates self-sustaining ‘cultures of worklessness’. This is first discussed in relation to the social scientific literature on neighbourhood effects, with the conclusion that the broader evidence base on neighbourhood effects is inconclusive. Further research on intergenerational worklessness is England is then reviewed. The evidence largely contradicts the assertion that there is persistent intergenerational worklessness. But the process of myth busting can also reinforce the politicised misrepresentation of empirical fact, giving it greater legitimacy through direct engagement. At other times problematic evidence is dismissed too quickly, on normative rather than empirical grounds. This tendency is prevalent in another social housing debate, discussed in the second half of the chapter. Discourses surrounding democratic participation in housing management are discussed, with a focus on the controversial transfer of some estates from councils to housing associations.
The issues raised in Chapters 1 and 2 are explored through an analysis of competing discourses of social housing and welfare dependency. The chapter starts with a theoretical discussion of the ways in which the meanings of ‘social housing’ and ‘dependency’ have been socially constructed, while articulating in greater depth the book’s key theoretical premises. A distinction is drawn between ‘social’ and social scientific facts in the context of welfare debates. Special attention is paid to the political debate around social housing and life chances in the 2000s, and in particular the role of think-tanks and the media in constructing negative narratives of worklessness. These constructions proceed by colonisation of key sociological concepts such as a culture and life chances, and by persistent misrepresentation of empirical data. They nevertheless create powerful social facts that are to be taken seriously as sociological phenomena.
This chapter presents the findings of two research projects conducted in the South East and South West of England. Social housing and wellbeing is discussed with reference to two notable research studies conducted in the 1980s. The concept of ontological security anchors a theoretical discussion of home and belonging, but it is argued that the concept itself has been misunderstood and misused in housing research. The survey data is based on four wellbeing items used by the Office for National Statistics. Further items on individual experiences of the home are taken from the existing housing literature. Social housing has a positive effect on anxiety, though there is an association between social renting and lower satisfaction with life in the South East. Positive experiences of neighbourhood are more important than housing tenure. The chapter closes with a renewed discussion of ontological security, property, and identity.
Chapter 1 introduces the key themes of wellbeing and welfare and sets them in the wider context of current welfare and housing debates. This context includes a widespread sense of housing crisis, with individuals and families in all types of housing struggling to find an affordable home that meets their needs. In the face of this crisis social housing should play an important role. But the number of households in social housing has halved over the past 40 years, and many people who would benefit from a social home are excluded by a lack of a supply. Some other households may benefit from a stable and affordable home, but still regard social housing as an inferior choice, and a mark of social stigma. The chapter closes with an examination of two forms of social distance, metaphorical and literal, that have created and sustain this sense of stigma.
This book explores the relationship between housing, wellbeing and the welfare state in the United Kingdom. The book of structured in three parts. In part one the central focus is on the purpose and value of social housing, with a particular focus on the ways in which negative discourses of social housing and welfare dependency have developed over the last 40 years. The concept of wellbeing is discussed and then presented in an analytical framework of potential housing-wellbeing interactions. The framework encompasses thick accounts of wellbeing and human flourishing as well as subjective wellbeing metrics, with a focus on discourses of welfare dependency and the ideological context of a property-owning democracy.
Part two presents new empirical data and analysis. Two case-studies explore the relationship between social housing, neighbourhood and wellbeing. These studies include subjective experiences of the home and the home as a source of identity. New analysis of secondary survey data is then presented. The results show that social housing has no negative effect on wellbeing. Conversely, mortgaged owners tend to have lower wellbeing than other types of households. Neighbourhood is shown to be a crucial determinant of wellbeing across all tenures. Part III applies these results to contemporary political and policy debate and advocates a hybrid approach to social housing, meeting diverse needs and offering a wider range of tenure options.
