Horizon Net Zero Dawn – keynote slides by Ben Abraham
Integrated Planning for healthy resilient futures
1. Integrated Planning Tools
for a healthy, sustainable and
resilient future
Sandy Brinsdon, Anna Stevenson
Community & Public Health, Canterbury District Health Board
IUPHE conference Rotorua April 2019
4. Step 1: HPSTED
• Developed with City Council
• Assessing impact of
planning policies and
planning processes on
health and wellbeing
• 14 evaluation criteria with
key points to consider
• Intended to be used in a
holistic manner
5. The Evaluation Criteria (Building Blocks)
Active Lifestyles
Transport
Accessibility
Equity
Social &
Community
Capital
Cultural
Diversity
Neighbourhood
Amenity
Public Services Housing Stock
Economic
Development
Community
Safety
Natural Capital
Resource
Sustainability
Community
Resilience
Food Security
6. Steps 2 & 3
Integrated Recovery Planning Guide
• Immediately post-earthquake
recovery focus
• Building on from HPSTED
• Shared vision for stronger,
healthier & more resilient
communities
• Collaborative development
• Civil Defence focus
• Health to the background
9. New version required….
• Useful and valued
• Things change –intended to be a
living document
• Recovery focus limiting
• National and global imperatives
for Health in all Policies and
integrated planning
10. Building blocks of health
Active
Lifestyles
Transport
Accessibility
Equity
Social &
Community
Capital
Cultural
Diversity
Neighbourhood
Amenity
Public
Services
Housing Stock Economic
Development
Community
Safety
Natural
Capital
Resource
Sustainability
Community
Resilience
Food Security
11. Our Space regional growth strategy
Who: NGO, business, academics,
health, local & national
government, economic, ethnic
groups, developers ………..
How: 3 hours, 4 mixed groups,
selection of building blocks
Outcome: strengthen document,
build awareness
12.
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14. Our Vision for the Guide
A useful and used tool that helps contribute to
creating places and policy that support
people/the community to live flourishing lives
15. Principles remain
• Connect IPG with other key strategic documents
E.g., Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy
• Communication key
• Tell a story of why and how the building blocks work together
E.g., Prosperous businesses, quality employment and job
security can make it easier to pursue a health lifestyle
Establishing and maintaining effective communications links
with the community is essential
Editor's Notes
Make sure I explain HiAP in my intro as nowhere else it comes up
Careful using “we” as lots of different we’s do try to use names ie local and regional council – not Ecan for instance
Research indicated a huge gap between planners, policy and health
Gaps still evident where planning and policy could be improved to impact positively on health
Simple tool needed to try to bridge gaps -
Desire to integrate HiAP
Evidence of the gap – CCC, European healthy cities, NZPHmed said about planning and health – planners knew it could have an impact but not how
85% of the determinants which affect health lie outside the health system ( or so they say
All decisions that impact on place or community have a health element
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Rebuild projects increasing inequity?
Mention recent study from Auckland about gap between richer and poorer neighbourhoods? https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/357289/auckland-s-southern-suburbs-struggle-in-prosperity-gap
When we talk to this slide ensure we talk about a range of tools that can do this – HIA, HEAT etc ones we don’t even know about but we wanted to produce one specifically as a resource for planning healthy, resilient and sustainable communities
Mention here the tools, languages and relationships so tease this out a bit more
Holistic approach to addressing communities needs
Design making tool
Range of disciplines – health, equity, sustainability
Too often people say well that’s a health assessment now how about a sustainability one or an equity one or a cultural one – this brings all of this together
Instead of a separate slide talk here about an evolution
I variety of tools can be used but I want to take you through the evolution of a particular planning Guide
2007/2008
was jointly designed primarily to assist Christchurch City Council planning staff to integrate, in an explicit way, outcomes thinking
relevant to health, wellbeing and sustainability into their policy and plan making.
Initially based on resources from the UK, Australia and WHO.
Could be used with strategic plans, area plans or settlement plans.
Evaluation criteria for sustainability divided into 14 main themes or section with questions to provide a starting point, and ways planners can help.
Included a matrix that could be completed to show the likely impact of a strategy, plan or policy on the wellbeing of the community as a whole.
In developing this they identified 14 things that they wanted to take into account. That were important, that mattered
This is where integration came in – how are these things all considered in various ways – but together
After the September 2010 Christchurch earthquake there was a call for an updated ‘quake specific’ version of the HPSTED was already being reviewed and evaluated but sped up - Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM) Recovery Framework
The dimensions for health introduced in HPSTED reworded. Included sample questions, developed for recovery planning, as a basis for developing and evaluating planning proposals and projects, ensuring that the principles of health and sustainability are integrated into planning.
Included Te Pae Mahutonga dimensions of health promotion
Development Process: A scoping meeting led by Anna in September 2010
representatives from the Urban Development Strategy staff, Christchurch City Council, Environment Canterbury, Community and Public Health, a sustainability advisor and a graphic designer.
The need for a quake version of HPSTED agreed on - Karen Banwell, Adair Bruorton (CCC) and Nicola Laurie (C&PH, CDHB) worked with numerous staff members from the attending agencies to pull together the draft version of the newly named Integrated Recovery Planning Guide (The Guide) which was released
for comment and peer review in hard copy and online mid October.
Guide was circulated widely for review generally highly supportive feedback. A targeted review of potential users was undertaken over January and February 2011 and all feedback collated. Final version March 2011.
Who should use this tool – planning, policy, community, public health, environmental health, developers, others involved in transport, housing, planning environmental or health policy – all of you here!
Using the tool
Different ways
Assessing outcomes
Engagement
Using the tool
Different ways – no one right way, important to consider each dimensions and links between them
Brainstorming
Tool to inform planning (preparatory and feasibility) and identify alternatives
Workshop or group discussion, even desktop
Evaluation tool
Assessing outcomes – for the first time have including some suggestions for measurements or indicators that might be helpful in establishing baselines or gauging impact
Engagement – important to involve other perspectives and communicate effectively
Develop decision making tool for submissions
Migrant workshop on earthquake recovery
Design of metro-sports facility
Helps put specific issues into a wider change context
Broadly Speaking training
Feedback on working in east Christchurch workshop
Capacity Building – broadly speaking
Political science students – Red zone improvements
Audit food security missed and then included
IPRG has been used as a design tool, audit tool, brainstorming tool and project planning tool
Planning:
Integrated assessments for recovery plans
Master planning: Sydenham, Lyttelton, Ferry Road
Recovery planning by CCC for Kaikoura
Rationale for review…
Increasing evidence of link between urban design and health and wellbeing outcomes
Local processes and Large projects underway Regenerate, LTPs:
Global imperative (i.e. Sustainability Development Goals)
Government supportive of HiAP
new portfolio of health and climate change
Report on transport and health
Desire to integrate HiAP
More graphics!!!!
Simplify
“Gamify”
More “how to use” / roadmap
Less health speak
Have different formats/collateral (web, poster)
“Looks hard, sounds expensive, I just want to get project done”
The main section of the guide goes through each of the building blocks of health, first presented HPSTED.
Each dimension outlines some key points and questions that planners and project managers need to consider in the planning process. These questions do not form an exhaustive list, but are rather a starting point for innovative planning. Questions have been added/edited over the course of the three editions.
Users are encouraged to consider the links between the different dimensions. Some questions could fall under a couple of headings.
Example -
Transport:
Do plans make the most of opportunities to promote active and public transport?
Are the needs of pedestrians and cyclists given enough priority?
Has accessibility for all been considered (including people with disabilities, youth, older people, families with young children, lower income earners etc)?
For the first time we have tried to include some suggestions for measurements or indicators for the building blocks that might help clarify how outcomes might be assessed.
What indicators do you think would be good fits/useful?
Waiting to see if SMG will sign the foreward
Useful and used important
Testing of revised draft
Finalise any changes after testing, develop additional collateral
Publish by December (hopefully)
Training workshops
Embed into processes at partner organisations
Case studies & evaluation
One essential part was focusing on the principle of integrated planning
Initial was to link to existing agreement to work together regionally
Establishing and maintaining effective communication links with the community is essential.
Engaging communities and encouraging participation in recovery planning and actions will build stronger more resilient communities.
Well-designed, safe and accessible places and spaces support good health, well-being and a sense of belonging.
Housing that is affordable, secure, dry and warm is critical for ensuring good health outcomes, particularly for the very young and elderly.
People who enjoy and identify with their local neighbourhoods are more likely to engage in community activities and establish social connections.
The quality of our air, water, soil and biodiversity underpin the health and economic prosperity of our society.
Incorporating sustainability considerations will help achieve economic, social and environmental goals simultaneously, in both the short and long term.
Promoting safe, direct, convenient, comfortable and attractive cycling and walking networks enables people to choose active transport options, encouraging active lives.
Prosperous businesses, quality employment and job security can make it easier to pursue a healthy lifestyle.