Tools & guidance

On this page you will find a selection of tools and resources to help you make the link between housing and planning for better health outcomes.

The Housing LIN was also involved with NHS England to help produce guidance for the housebuilding and health sectors that will help local communities learn from the Healthy New Towns programme, as well as help people create healthier places and integrated healthcare services through the development proces.

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Town programme

Following the publication of NHS England Healthy New Town guide, this report from the King’s Fund features a collection of essays covering a range of relevant considerations for successful place-shaping.

Putting Health Into Place

This linked series of reports from NHS England highlights learning from the Healthy New Towns programme.

Developing healthier places

This LGA guide acknowledges how councils can work with developers to create places that support wellbeing.

The role of cities in improving population health: International insights

This King's Fund report reveals how decisions in areas such as housing, employment and transport planning all have a positive impact on health with a city context.

Building successful new communities: Lessons from the TCPA’s New Communities Group

This report from TCPA highlights the work of its New Communities Group (NCG), by sharing lessons learned from the group, as well as examples of good practice.

Healthy housebuilding: Making 300,000 new homes a year better places to live

This briefing note from UKGBC is the response to a study that covered the features of a home which contribute most significantly to a sense of wellbeing, both physical and mental. It is aimed mostly for Parliamentarians and policy-makers.

Healthy placemaking report

This report produced in collaboration between the Design Council and Social Change UK identifies the attitudes of built environment practitioners towards healthy placemaking.

TCPA health briefing on the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework

The TCPA have released this briefing in order to provide an overview of the strategic direction of changes to the NPPF together with specific proposed policies relevant to planning for health.

Securing constructive collaboration and consensus for planning healthy developments

This report from TCPA has been produced following a Developers & Wellbeing project, in collaboration with public health bodies. It summarises what has been learned and sets out key messages to help promote shared responsibility and collective action among relevant groups.

Practical Guides for Creating Successful New Communities: creating health-promoting environments

A practical guide from TPCA, setting out suggestions on how new Garden Cities should be designed with the aim of promoting the health of their residents.

Spatial Planning for Health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthier places

This project was commissioned by PHE to address the need for a UK-centric evidence review that analyses and demonstrates the links between health and the built and natural environment.

Transforming healthcare in England's core cities

This case study report by the NHS Clinical Commissioners Network explains how core cities commissioners are addressing a variety of challenges clustered around four key themes of equitable care, partnership...

Public Health in Planning: Good Practice Guide

The guide from the Town and Country Planning Association is a practical resource produced to help public health and planning colleagues identify where public health can contribute towards the planning...