'What skills are needed for healthy
and sustainable place-making?'

LHC team member Catherine Max will be helping provide the answers next week at the European Skills Symposium hosted by the Academy of Sustainable Communities. Her workshop will explore integrated approaches to place-making which promote the "win-win" of health and sustainability for economic and urban development.

The LHC has led the way with the launch in July of the Sustainable Local Economies for Health project (SLEHP) - a strategic planning tool designed for everyone working to regenerate communities. SLEHP is also part of the package offered - by the LHC, London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC), Government Office for London and London Councils - to boroughs looking to embed health and sustainability in their Local Area Agreements.

Andrew Attfield, Regeneration Manager, Barts & the London NHS Trust. said,

"SLEHP helped Barts and the London NHS Trust to formulate its ideas around sustainable development and its contribution to the local economy. In particular it provided a structure for its Sustainable Development Index of targets and indicators associated with its new development.”

The workshop in Leeds will also include lessons from the Sustainability Appraisal of the further alterations of the Mayor's London Plan where we worked with LSDC to pilot an Integrated Impact Assessment tool.

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