24 Jan
Building healthy?
Yesterday the Department of Health launched Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives, a strategy to tackle the burgeoning obesity problem in the UK. The report includes plans to promote walking and cycling around towns, using the built environment to galvanise the whole community into a healthier community.
The initiative will be backed up by targeted funds and a raft of new NICE recommendations which call for new developments to prioritise the need to be physically active. In addition planners will be given training on promoting physical activity and local authorities will be encouraged to support the vision of a more active society.
The question is will it really change the way we build?