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SUMMARY:Securing healthy homes locally – a webinar for local government
DESCRIPTION:Healthy homes are essential for people to live healthy\, happy lives. There is strong evidence showing how the quality of our homes and neighbourhoods affects our mental and physical health. However\, around one in ten people in the UK (over 6 million) are still living in poor quality homes.  \n\n\n\nLocal councils are at the sharp end of this debate\, partly because they bear the increased costs that arise from the social care and housing requirements associated with unaffordable and poor quality housing\, and partly because they have the insight and will to drive lasting change to secure healthy lives. \n\n\n\nThe TCPA has produced a technical guide which explains in detail why and how the Healthy Homes Principles can be applied in local policy and practice.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will share some of the highlights from the guide. We’ll outline some of the approaches adopted by different local authorities around England\, as well as presentations from Lewes District Council\, the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and Tibbalds about the ways they are promoting Healthy Homes and communities locally. \n\n\n\nAgenda \n\n\n\n12:00Welcome and introductionEvent chair12:05Overview of the Healthy Homes guideRosalie CallwayProjects & Policy Manager\, TCPA Sally RoscoeProjects & Policy Officer\, TCPA12:15BRE Homes Quality Mark – operationalising the Healthy Homes PrinciplesJennifer DudleyProduct Manager – Residential Housing\, BRE12:25Lewes District Council – housing and planning workEmily O’BrienGreen Party Councillor for Ouse Valley & RingmerNathan HaffendenAssistant Director – Property and Development\, Lewes District Council and Eastbourne Borough Council12:35Tibbalds – Northstowe and design code for BradfordKatja StilleDirector Planning and Urban Design\, Tibbalds12:45Q&AEvent chair\n\n\n\n\nRegister to attend
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/securing-healthy-homes-locally-a-webinar-for-local-government/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Youth engagement in planning\, regeneration and neighbourhood management - Voice Opportunity Power
DESCRIPTION:Young people have a right to be involved in the decisions that shape the places where they live and including them creates better places for everyone. \n\n\n\nThe Voice Opportunity Power toolkit is a free resource with practical guidance on how to involve young people (11-18) in the way that places get built and managed. It is for engagement practitioners\, developers\, designers\, planners and sports providers and is designed to improve participation in – and the quality of – new development and regeneration. The toolkit was produced by ZCD Architects in partnership with Grosvenor\, Sport England\, and the TCPA. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar Dinah Bornat\, Director ZCD Architects\, will: \n\n\n\n\ngive an overview of Voice Opportunity Power – what the toolkit contains and how it can be used;\n\n\n\npresent some case study examples of how it has been used on different projects and developments;\n\n\n\nfollowed by a Q&A.\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here: \n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar forms part of the TCPA’s work on children\, young people and the built environment. If you would like to know more about this work including previous event recordings and the Raising the healthiest generation in history report\, please click here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by:
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/youth-engagement-in-planning-regeneration-and-neighbourhood-management-voice-opportunity-power/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Empowering young people for a greener future - youth engagement transforming Grosvenor Square
DESCRIPTION:Teenagers and young people have lots of knowledge about their neighbourhoods and spaces\, but too often no-one asks them what they think. \n\n\n\nDesigned to involve young people in the making and managing of their neighbourhoods\, the Voice Opportunity Power youth engagement toolkit is a free resource written by ZCD Architects and supported by Grosvenor\, the TCPA and Sport England. \n\n\n\nCoinciding with the Great Big Green Week\, this webinar explore the transformation of one of London’s oldest public squares\, using Voice Opportunity Power to engage  young people in creating an extraordinary green space with exemplary environmental credentials. \n\n\n\nThe webinar will include the perspectives of developer Grosvenor\, child and youth engagement specialists MATT+FIONA and a young adult who took part in the work themselves. \n\n\n\nThis event will be of interest to developers\, designers\, planners and sustainability professionals concerned with how to amplify youth voices in projects and how to create opportunities for meaningful participation. \n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n10:00WelcomeJulia ThriftDirector Healthier place-making\, TCPA10:05Case study: Grosvenor Square\, LondonNicola RochfortHead of Community Engagement & InsightsMatthewSpringett and Fiona MacDonaldMATT+FIONAMarwaMayfair Youth Forum alumni11:00Q&AFacilitated by Julia Thrift\, TCPA11:15Close
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/empowering-young-people-for-a-greener-future-youth-engagement-transforming-grosvenor-square/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Tackling health inequalities through green and blue infrastructure - webinar
DESCRIPTION:Can green and blue infrastructure help reduce health inequalities? Join this free webinar that will delve into the latest research linking planning\, green / blue space\, and health inequalities. Led by Professor Ben Wheeler and Dr Mark Ferguson\, from the University of Exeter\, they will critically engage with opportunities and risks that planners face when integrating green and blue space. Then they will provide insights into how a ‘systems approach’ can identify\, and minimise\, unintended consequences\, and maximise health benefits for your places and communities. \n\n\n\nAgenda \n\n\n\nTimeSpeaker12.00-12.20Introduction and evidence on green/blue infrastructure and health inequalities. Julia Thrift\, TCPA Director\, Healthier Place-making & Prof Ben Wheeler\, Professor in Environment\, Health and Inequalities12.20-12.35NIHR funded research project: How can planning and environmental interventions impact GBI-health inequalities systems? Prof Ben Wheeler & Dr Mark Ferguson12.35-12.50Case study: Greenspace access\, public health and the Local Nature Recovery Strategy in urban and rural Dorset. Rupert Lloyd\, Senior Health Programme Advisor & Amy Smith\, Local Nature Recovery Officer\, Dorset Council 12.50-13.30Q&A with the audience and discussion\n\n\n\n\nRegister to attend
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tackling-health-inequalities-through-green-and-blue-infrastructure-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Plants\, puddles and possibility: the importance of natural play for children
DESCRIPTION:From muddy knees to makeshift dens\, everyday playful encounters with nature are far more than a ‘nice to have’ in childhood. Evidence shows that contact with plants\, trees\, soil and water supports children’s physical health\, cognitive development\, mental wellbeing and social connectedness\, and can help close health gaps between more and less advantaged children. \n\n\n\nThis webinar will explore what we mean by “natural play” and explore the evidence on why it matters for children\, especially those growing up in increasingly dense\, risk-averse and urban environments.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at how green and “wild” spaces nurture creativity\, resilience and build connection to nature and how spaces and places for natural play can be created and managed. We’ll also reflect on some of the cultural and systemic barriers that developers\, planners\, landscape architects and play practitioners face\, from fears over safety and maintenance regimes\, to approaches to mess\, liability and supervision.  \n\n\n\nThe webinar is an invitation to join us in thinking about how to make sure plants\, puddles and possibility are part of every child’s everyday life. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAgenda and speakers (TBC) \n\n\n\n11:30Welcome and introductionJulia Thrift – Director Healthier place-making\, TCPA11:45Children and nature – a vital relationshipDr William Bird – Intelligent Health12:00Playful\, sustainable and inclusive landscapesand gardens – making it happenAndree Davies and Adam White – Davies White Landscape Architects12:20Natural\, playful spaces – learning from Better Place BradfordAdele Adams – Project Manager\, Better Place – Better Start Bradford12:40Q&AAll\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by:
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/plants-puddles-and-possibility-the-importance-of-natural-play-for-children/
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SUMMARY:One role\, multiple systems: public health and planning roles in Local Authorities
DESCRIPTION:Webinar \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOver the last few years there has been an increase in specialist healthy places roles in local government. These roles are often based in Public Health or Planning teams but work across systems as part of Health in All Policies approaches. Recent PHIRST research into these types of roles in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc  and East Sussex and Southampton demonstrate that they support efforts to promote healthy environments in local authority settings and are impactful agents of change\, influencing policy\, processes and people. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion with three people experienced in hybrid public health and planning roles in English local authorities\, sharing what it takes to make these posts happen and what they can deliver once in place. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be talking with: \n\n\n\nLourdes Madigasekera-Elliott Public Health Strategic Lead: Creating Healthy and Sustainable Places\, East Sussex County Council \n\n\n\nLourdes is the public health strategic lead for Creating Healthy Places. She is responsible for addressing the environmental determinants of health\, ecological public health\, getting health into place and embedding Health\, Environment and Sustainability in All Policies. Lourdes works to support population health management\, to address health inequalities\, social injustice\, and environmental protection. \n\n\n\nDr David McAleavey Creating Active and Healthy Places Lead\, Middlesbrough Council (Public Health South Tees) \n\n\n\nDr David McAleavey is a behavioural scientist and public health spatial planner integrating planning\, transport and public health across South Tees\, advancing whole‑systems approaches that embed physical activity\, Health in All Policies\, and healthier environments into spatial planning and local policy frameworks. \n\n\n\nKim Wilson MRTPI Public Health Principal – Built Environment\, Milton Keynes Council \n\n\n\nKim is a Public Health Principal specialising in Healthy Places and the Built Environment. She is a qualified town planner with over 30 years’ experience in Local Authority settings. Working in the shared Public Health Service for Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes\, Kim leads work to integrate public health evidence into a range of disciplines\, working across planning\, transport\, housing and environmental policy to support the creation of healthier\, more equitable\, and resilient places. \n\n\n\nThe webinar is aimed at anyone interested in enabling similar roles\, as well as people who might be interested in taking them up. The session will cover: how health and planning roles can emerge; place-based outcomes they’ve helped achieve (from policy influence to culture change); and challenges and opportunities moving forwards. \n\n\n\nThis event is being held in collaboration with the Health & Wellbeing in Planning Network which aims to support practitioners working in the area of promoting health through planning and the built environment.. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by:
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/one-role-multiple-systems-public-health-and-planning-roles-in-local-authorities/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Bringing young people together to make better places: a case study from PLACED on youth voice
DESCRIPTION:Webinar \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEngaging young people in planning brings insight into how places are used everyday. Their perspectives can highlight what supports\, or limits\, play\, movement\, safety and social connection in ways that are too often overlooked by adults. \n\n\n\nWhen done well\, engagement with children and young people is practical and purposeful\, allowing them to actively shape decisions rather than simply inform them. Youth engagement can lead to more inclusive\, well-used places that work better for everyone\, and ensures that children and young people feel recognised as part of the communities they live in. \n\n\n\nPLACED have been involving children and young people in the design of places since 2011. Their work with young people provides invaluable insight into the views of this key\, often underrepresented group\, but it also delivers significant social value through building confidence\, exploring career options and encouraging active citizenship. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar we will here from Jo Harrop\, PLACED Director about meaningful engagement\, a young person engaged with the PLACED Academy programme and Lily Dowse on PLACED’s recent work engaging over 200 young people to reimagine the town centres of Rochdale\, Middleton\, and Heywood. \n\n\n\nThis event supports the TCPA’s ongoing work on the rights\, needs and voices of children and young people in the built environment\, including case studies and guidance on embedding children and young people in planning policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by:
URL:https://www.tcpa.org.uk/event/bringing-young-people-together-to-make-better-places-a-case-study-from-placed-on-youth-voice/
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