Review of transport for London’s ‘Healthy Streets Approach’ and its potential contribution to biophilic cities

ABSTRACT

The Mayor’s Transport Strategy and Draft London Plan promote the delivery of healthier streets through the new ‘Healthy Streets Approach’. This is a framework which integrates health into planning and design decisions and promotes a collaborative approach between transport specialists and designers. Through examples and the authors’ professional experience, this paper will explore how further development of this innovative new planning tool could help lead to the delivery of biophilic cities.

KEYWORDS:

• Biophilia
• health
• planning
• streets
• London

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Joanna Ede

Joanna Ede is a Chartered Landscape Architect, Landscape Planner and Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design with twenty five years' professional experience. As Director of Townscape and Head of Landscape and VIA at Turley, Joanna leads a team providing specialist landscape, townscape and visual impact services in the planning and development process.

Amber Morley

Amber Morley is a Senior Consultant in the Turley Economics team. Her role involves undertaking economic and social research to inform land and property decisions in the UK. She leads the Health Impact Assessment practice within the team and has worked with a number of clients, including industrial and residential. Her work is informed by her MSc dissertation which focussed on to what extent the healthy planning principles outlined in the Draft London Plan could be delivered in practice.