Healthy Streets
Healthy Streets provides a framework that supports decision-makers to put people first within a place, focusing on a series of Healthy Streets Indicators to deliver greater outcomes for residents.
Every decision we make about our built environment, however small, is an opportunity to deliver better places for people to live in and thereby improve their health. The Healthy Streets Approach is a human-centred framework for embedding public health in transport, public realm and planning.
The Healthy Streets approach is based on 10 evidence-based Healthy Streets Indicators, each describing an aspect of the human experience of being on streets. These ten must be prioritised and balanced to improve social, economic and environmental sustainability through how streets are designed and managed.
This Approach can be applied to any streets, anywhere in the world. It builds improvements on existing conditions rather than seeking a fixed end goal. Taking this Approach requires incremental changes in all aspects of the decision-making processes related to streets and transport.
Further information and resources are available directly via www.healthystreets.com.
Share your examples and case studies!
We’re always looking for more examples of great practice when it comes to creating healthier place making! If you know of great examples – whether that’s a well-designed park, a health housing development, or anything else – then please get in touch to share it with us… it’d be great to showcase your example on Healthy Place Making.