The University of the West of England, on behalf of Public Health England (PHE), are circulating a new survey on spatial planning for public health, and are interested in the views of transport professionals.

In 2016 Public Health England published Spatial Planning for Health, a resource providing public health planners and local communities with evidence informed principles for designing healthy places. Since then a team including researchers based at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and University College London (UCL) have been commissioned by PHE to undertake a piece of research exploring the challenges and opportunities associated with applying the evidence-based principles set out in the Spatial Planning for Health resource at a local level.

The ultimate aim is to identify how the Spatial Planning for Health resource and other existing guidance might be developed and improved for use at the local level.

If you are interested and would like to fill out the survey you can find the link here.

PHE has also published a call for application to their research grants programme that can provide evidence as to what creates healthy places. In particular they are looking for;

1. Interventions designed to create healthy places (e.g. where and how to develop or build healthy environments)
2. Interventions that integrate environmental and behavioural interventions
3. Upstream interventions, such as those that engageplanning practitioners, policy-makers, decision-makers and politicians in creating healthy places
4. Interventions designed to stimulate system change, resulting in healthier environments
5. Interventions to ensure places are all-age or disability friendly (e.g. enabling people with limited mobility to be active).

You can find more details about the process here.