Core CPD Framework:
- Health & Wellbeing
- 4.45 CPD Hours
Planning for Healthy People and Places
Planning and health are indivisible and the spectrum of understanding of the impact of place on wellbeing is increasing rapidly. Whether helping to tackle physical health challenges for society, addressing the needs of an ageing population and providing solutions to the crisis in mental health planning can unlock opportunities and guide investment. Join us for an interactive and informative day where speakers from the built environment will be joined by health professionals to learn and share best practice.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the day delegates will have.
•A greater understanding of the baseline issues in society
•Gained knowledge of the tools, policies and actions that lead to healthier places
•Found connections between people and place services across the health system
•Explored funding options and innovations
•Gained an understanding of international best practice
Programme
09.30am Registration and Refreshments
10.00am Chair's welcome and introduction
Tim Crawshaw, Director of Planning and Placemaking at Surrey County Council
10.10am Accessibility and Inclusive Design - Dementia Friendly Places
Brian Castellani, PhD FAcSS, Professor of Social and Public Health, Director at Durham Research Methods Centre, Director at Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing, Durham University
Brian will focus on the following to generate a discussion amongst the group. As a complexity scientist and health sociologist, his work on air pollution and dementia explores how environmental exposures shape brain health over time, particularly in vulnerable populations. When applied to Accessibility and Inclusive Design, his research can be helpful for generating insights for creating Dementia-Friendly Places. Air pollution disproportionately impacts older adults and those with cognitive impairments, exacerbating symptoms and hindering quality of life. By using computational modelling and mixed methods, he maps these environmental stressors' complex interactions with social determinants, enabling them to design inclusive, adaptive environments. For dementia-friendly spaces, this means, amongst other things, integrating air quality monitoring and green infrastructure into urban planning, reducing exposure to pollutants while enhancing physical and cognitive wellbeing.
10.45am Health Impact Assessments
Speaker tbc
11.20am Refreshment break
11.35am Climate and Environmental Factors - Climate to Nature and Climate change Adaption
Tim Crawshaw, Director of Planning and Placemaking at Surrey County Council
12.10pm Best Local Plan policies for health and wellbeing outcomes
Speaker tbc
12.45pm Dementia and Planning
Speaker tbc
1.20 Lunch and refreshments
2.20pm Health and Wellbeing in Planning - Wider determinants of health and planning impact
Michael Chang, Programme Manager - Planning and Health at Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
3.00pm Planner Wellbeing - Maintaining focus and maximising productivity for planners
Facilitator - Lyn Hatch, Health & Wellness Coach - Feel Well
3.55pm Closing remarks
Accessibility
• The venue is 10mins walk away from Darlington Station
• Car Parking options available here
• The venue is accessible by taxi
The RTPI is committed to delivering inclusive events to make sure that all attendees have the best possible experience. To help work towards being able to do this if you have any access needs or special requirements you would like to discuss, please contact Kim Walker. Your feedback is important to us as we strive to create a welcoming and accommodating environment for everyone.
Please note we have a limited number of free places for those members working for Local Authorities.
Useful Links for further reading
• RTPI Health and Wellbeing Hub
If you experience any problems when booking, please contact Kim Walker Regional Coordinator for assistance.
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Discover more about our chair and speakers
Timothy David Crawshaw
Director of Planning and Placemaking for Surrey CC ( RTPI NE Immediate Past Regional Chair )
Timothy David Crawshaw
Director of Planning and Placemaking for Surrey CC ( RTPI NE Immediate Past Regional Chair )
Timothy David Crawshaw MIED MRTPI FRSA is a highly experienced built environment professional and advocate for planning as a key part of the solution to the challenges of our time. With over 20 years’ experience in a UK and international contexts Timothy is an expert in nature-based solutions, healthy placemaking, culture and economic development. An adjunct professor of planning and urban design at Newcastle University he is an acclaimed and inspiring public speaker and facilitator with a passion for great places and community involvement. Timothy is currently the Director of Planning and Placemaking for Surrey County Council, Chair of the Tees Valley Nature Partnership, and a former President of the RTPI and Immediate Past Chair of the RTPI NE.
Brian Castellani PhD FAcSS
Professor of Social and Public Health, Director - Durham Research Methods Centrre
Brian Castellani PhD FAcSS
Professor of Social and Public Health, Director - Durham Research Methods Centrre
In addition to being Director of the DRMC, Brian is a Co-Director of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry (Northeastern Ohio Medical University), Editor of the Routledge Complexity in Social Science series, CO-I for the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Social Sciences.
Brian is trained as a public health sociologist, clinical psychologist, and methodologist and take a transdisciplinary approach to his work. His methodological focus is primarily on computational modelling and mixed-methods. Brian and his colleagues have spent the past ten years developing a new case-based, data mining approach to modelling complex social systems and social complexity – case-based computational modelling – which they have used to help researchers, policy evaluators, and public sector organisations address a variety of complex public health issues, from depression and allostatic load to air pollution and brain health to the social determinants of health inequalities.
They also developed COMPLEX-IT, designed to increase non-expert access to the tools of computational social science (i.e., cluster analysis, artificial intelligence, data visualization, data forecasting, and scenario simulation) to make better sense of the complex world(s) in which they live and work. As Director of the DRMC, his goal is to facilitate across the university a transdisciplinary and mixed-methods approach to social and health science, grounded in a complex systems perspective.
Michael Chang FRTPI, HonMFPH
Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
Michael Chang FRTPI, HonMFPH
Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
Michael is a strategic leader on place, environment, spatial planning and public health, and is a chartered town planner and honorary public health professional. He has initiated and led programmes on spatial planning and health including at the Town and Country Planning Association and currently at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (formerly Public Health England) since 2019, which includes writing guidance to support policy development and implementation and working across government departments, agencies and stakeholders. He co-founded the Health and Wellbeing in Planning Network in 2018, is a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments and Trustee of the Quality of Life Foundation.
Lyn Hatch
Health and Wellbeing Coach
Lyn Hatch
Health and Wellbeing Coach
Lyn, a Darlington resident, spent 20 years working in commercial management roles in industry on Teesside, before transitioning into the health & wellbeing sector in 2018. She is an accredited Health Coach, trainer and mentor, as well as a Mum to two teenage boys. Whilst we may know what to do in order to feel healthier, it's not always easy to implement and stick to, which is where coaching comes in. Lyn is passionate about helping people find ways to do more of what they love and reap the rewards for their wellbeing.
