Targets for measuring health and wellbeing are critical to success of levelling up

The UK government’s Levelling Up white paper,1 and the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill set out aims on achieving “healthy life expectancy” and “improving wellbeing,” but lack detail on how it will meet those targets.A new clause put forward in the House of Lords by Simon Stevens, Philip Hunt, George Young and Don Foster, and supported by the Better Planning Coalition, seeks to tackle this by placing a duty on local planning authorities to include policies in their development plans that contribute to health and wellbeing. Specifically, planning authorities would be required to give special regard to: increasing access to high quality green infrastructure; access to good quality, affordable homes; opportunities to participate in everyday physical activity; providing services and amenities people need close to where they live.The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change has previously written about how the Levelling Up Bill can support the design of the built…
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