From evidence to impact: Delivering Healthy Urban Development

Combining the latest research with planning and design practice to explore how to create healthier, more sustainable urban environments .
About this Event

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. More to follow.

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.