Session 2: Designed gardens & landscapes for health & wellbeing

1055 Dr Val Kirby Designing Landscapes for Health & Wellbeing

1105 Julia Thrift (TCPA)Planning, Green Infrastructure and Health & Wellbeing

1115 Chris BeardshawDesigning Gardens for Health & Wellbeing

1125 Questions on Session 2

DESIGNING LANDSCAPES FOR HEALTH & WELLBEING

HEALTH & HORTICULTURE CONFERENCE4 JULY 2016

Presentation By Val Kirby, FLI

1 Healthy places improve air, water and soil quality, incorporating measures that help us adapt to, and where possible, mitigate, climate change

Principle 1Edgware Road Green Wall, London

Transport for London

Avenue Coking Works, TEP Landscape Architects

2 Healthy places help overcome health inequalities and can promote healthy lifestyles

Principle 2

Green Link, Motherwell, Edinburgh

Dudley Healthy Towns Programme, Dudley Metropolitan Council

3 Healthy places make people feel comfortable and at ease, increasing social interaction and reducing antisocial behaviour, isolation and stress

Inwood Park Water Play Area, Hounslow, London

Principle 3

Eastern Curve, Dalston

Royal Edinburgh Community Gardens, Edinburgh Cyrenians Trust

4 Healthy places optimise opportunities for working, learning and development

Principle 4

Barbluie Woodland Enterprise

Green Space Service, Helena Partnerships

5 Healthy places are restorative, uplifting and healing for both physical and mental health conditions

Principle 5

Exmoor National Park perceptions study

South West Acute Hospital, Timothy Soar

Recommendations, Challenges & Next Steps

6. Collaboration is key7. Recognise the multifunctional

benefits that landscape offers8. Use Health Impact Assessments9. Ensure community buy-in10. More evidence

1. A bigger role for public health in place making

2. A resource commitment3. Realise national

requirements at local level4. Recognise landscape as an

asset5. Use landscape in

performance indicators for public health

Thank you

Planning, green infrastructure, health and wellbeing

Julia ThriftProjects DirectorTCPA

4 July 2016

@GIPartnership @theTCPA @juliathrift

About the TCPA Leading the planning debate in the UK

www.tcpa.org.uk @thetcpa

the progressive origins of planningVictorian England and the progressive origins of planning…

Garden cities:

•Well designed buildings and landscape•High proportion of social housing•Healthy green spaces•Space to grow food•Access to jobs, social life, culture

Garden cities have always been about creating environments in which everyone can thrive…

‘Fair society, healthy lives’ 2010The ‘Marmot Review’The environments in which we live have a major impact on whether or not we are healthy…

TCPA’s ‘ReunitingHealth with Planning’work…

Source: H. Barton and M. Grant

The ‘wider determinants’ of health

• Parks: • individual sites managed for

amenity…

• Green infrastructure: • networks of green spaces,

trees, green roofs, river corridors etc managed to maximise sustainable drainage, urban cooling, active transport, public health…

Parks or green infrastructure?

• Challenges:

• Housing shortage – pressure to build homes not parks

• Council budget cuts – incentive to sell land• Developers’ profits – green space seen as costly

Planning and green infrastructure

• Opportunities:

• Obesity crisis – parks get people active• Flooding – vegetation reduces water run-off• Developers’ profits – green space starting to

be seen as an asset

Planning and green infrastructure

• Opportunities:

• The planning system can ensure that money from developments are used to fund the creation and maintenance of parks and green spaces.

• Both ‘section 106’ and CIL money can be used.

• http://www.tcpa.org.uk/pages/built-today-treasured-tomorrow.html

Planning and green infrastructure

• Multifunctional benefits of strategically designed • networks of green infrastructure:

• Urban cooling• Reduced water run-off to drains• Better mental health• Better physical health• Social cohesion• Economic attractiveness• Active travel• Biodiversity…

Making the case for green infrastructure

• A rapidly growing network of 1,000+ people and organisations that promote green infrastructure, share information, influence decision-makers…

• Set up by government as a result of the Natural Environment White Paper, managed by the TCPA since 2014

• Free to join – see:• www.gip-uk.org

Making the case for green infrastructure

• Thank you!

• Julia Thrift• Projects Director• TCPA• julia.thrift@tcpa.org.uk• @GIPartnership• @juliathrift

• www.tcpa.org.uk• www.gip-uk.org

Feel Good+Increased perceived health

+Social cohesion – meeting places

+Trees and psychological perceptions

+Happiness, friendliness, assertiveness

- Sadness, annoyance, fear

- Blood pressures and stress

+Seasonal connectivity

chrisbeardshaw.com

Social ActivityIncreased use of common space where trees present

Predictor of social ties-more social activity-more visitors-more neighbourly-more support-increased feeling of belonging

90% increase in green space use

83% increase in socialising

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Crime - Public Gardens & ParksVegetation reduces crime-low fear-lower incivilities-less aggressive behaviour-less violent behaviour

Designing out crime?-Trees-Management-Relevance-Nature

Housing complex 52% less total crime48%less property crime56% less violent crime

chrisbeardshaw.com

Role Model•Planning requirements•Design policies•Integrated to allied facilities•Enhance sense of place•Informed professional •Accountable LA•Community consultation•Green space allocation per population

chrisbeardshaw.com

Design Specifics•Accessible – 2km•Surfaces•Feel safe•Wildlife•Cross culture + generation•Attractive•Well kept•Sub divided = multi use•Seasonality•Coherent and complex planting response•Good horticulture•Robust elegance•Integrated management proposals

chrisbeardshaw.com

The garden is a place of pleasure, filled with joy, but it resounds in love, laments of poets; it is a refuge for private meditation; it is a place for feasts, entertainment for friends, a place of sexual and intellectual freedom, a setting for philosophical discussions, and a restorative for both the body and soul. It is a well ordered model of the universe, an experiment in immortality a never ending apparition of spring. It assumes the function of a sculpture gallery, a horticultural encyclopaedia, a centre of botanical and medical research, and a theatre for fantastic imitation. Finally it is a perpetual source of moral instruction.

Battisti - Natura Artificiosa.

Session 2: Designed gardens & landscapes for health & wellbeing

1055 Dr Val Kirby Designing Landscapes for Health & Wellbeing

1105 Julia Thrift (TCPA)Planning, Green Infrastructure and Health & Wellbeing

1115 Chris BeardshawDesigning Gardens for Health & Wellbeing

1125 Questions on Session 2