What creates healthy cities?

The Commission on Creating Healthy Cities, chaired by Lord Best and Kellogg College’s Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Oxford, investigated the links between urban matters and health and wellbeing. Their resultant report brings together a set of recommendations, which follow under four headings, including the built environment.

And, in relation to housing and the built environment, the report focusses on a number of important elements that make the case between health and housing and associated interventions - from affordable housing, planning for healthy homes, the quality of new housing and retrofitting existing homes, energy efficiency and the levelling up agenda in terms of healthier ‘placemaking’.