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This section introduces the healthy environment part of the plan. It explains that a healthy environment means building health and wellbeing into spatial planning, helping to reduce health inequalities, promote active lifestyles and give people access to safe homes, good open space and clean air. The plan aims to tackle challenges such as obesity and poor mental health through measures including active travel, green and blue infrastructure, healthy homes and Health Impact Assessments.
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7.2 Healthy Environment
Policies within this section contribute to achieving the following Strategic
Objectives:
SO4. Making effective use of land and natural resources
SO6. Creating attractive places and spaces
SO8. Improving the quality of life of our communities
7.2.1 A healthy environment refers to the integration of health and wellbeing into
spatial planning. It helps to shape the built and natural environment by reducing the
health inequalities, promoting active lifestyle and ensuring that people have access to
safe and sustainable homes, good quality open space and clean air. Councils recognise
the important role spatial planning can play in creating healthy, safe and inclusive
communities.
7.2.2 The Plan aims to tackle health inequalities, and other health challenges such as
obesity and poor mental health through incorporating various measures including
active travel, provision of adequate green and blue infrastructure, safe and healthy
homes and Health Impact As