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Health, Wellbeing and Place – #LICPD Day, Online

In this continuation of our hugely successful 2018 event in Cardiff, industry experts will lead talks, and interactive workshops to create a multifaceted virtual CPD experience for practitioners across the whole landscape sector.

Discuss how landscape underpins public health and wellbeing; see the benefits of green infrastructure for healthier communities; and achieve positive health and wellbeing outcomes through sustainable design and effective urban planning.

In this continuation of our hugely successful 2018 event in Cardiff, industry experts will lead talks, and interactive workshops to create a multifaceted virtual CPD experience for practitioners across the whole landscape sector.

Discuss how landscape underpins public health and wellbeing; see the benefits of green infrastructure for healthier communities; and achieve positive health and wellbeing outcomes through sustainable design and effective urban planning.

Meet the Speakers:

  • Julia Thrift, Director of Healthier Placemaking at TCPA
  • Jane Houghton, Senior Adviser of Green Infrastructure Standards for Natural England
  • Ed Baker, Director of Broadway Malyan (based in Singapore)
  • Jane Findlay, LI President and Founding Director of Fira
  • Harmony Ridgley, Adult Lifestyle Policy Implementation Officer at Public Health England
  • Sarah Preston, Senior Advisor for Natural England’s Outdoors for All programmes
  • Kenji Shermer, Urban Designer for East Devon District Council

and many more!

Session Highlights:

  • Virtual site visits with Iain Tuckett (Coin Street Community Builders) and Valarie Beirne (Bankside Urban Forest)
  • Get to grips with the very latest evidence linking green infrastructure to stronger, healthier, happier, more resilient and more equal communities
  • Reframe the debate: hear how a health-led leads to better understanding and more effective design outcomes
  • Discover the challenges of maintaining high-quality public realm in Central London and the benefits of community-led development
  • Understand the policy and evidence base that informs the Healthy Active by Design (HAbD) framework, with exemplary case studies from Australia and elsewhere
  • See how to implement a comprehensive design checklist within a development process, ensuring healthy outcomes from inception to implementation
  • Become confident, equipped and inspired to advocate for healthier environments for all
  • Discover the collaborative Health in all Policies (HiAP) approach that is bringing all sectors in Northern Ireland together towards a shared vision
  • Facilitate healthy play and create safe, sustainable, long-lasting play areas to accommodate large numbers of children of all ages
  • Hear the NHS’s latest ambitions for nature-based interventions, preventative care and social prescribing
  • Get the latest on national partnership work being undertaken across government