Envisioning healthy, sustainable and liveable neighbourhoods through collaborative city planning

Andrew Wheeler

Thriving Neighbourhoods Conference 2013

Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne

28-30th October

Metropolitan Planning Strategies

COAG criteria for future strategic planning of capital cities, December 2009

Capital city strategic planning systems should address nationally significant policy issues including:

a) population growth and demographic change

b) productivity and global competitiveness

c) climate change mitigation and adaptation

d) efficient development and use of existing and new infrastructure and other public assets

e) connectivity of people to jobs and businesses to markets

f) development of major urban corridors

g) social inclusion

h) health, liveability, and community wellbeing

i) housing affordability

j) matters of national environmental significance

To what extent do Australian metropolitan plans incorporate a comprehensive suite of intersectoral provisions for human health and wellbeing?

Brisbane (SEQ)

Sydney

• ‘Health’ missing in key sections – vision, strategic directions, policy statements and specific actions

• Key issues such as healthy food are often ignored

• Link between human health and environmental sustainability (co-benefits) is weak

• More collaboration – ongoing partnerships between built environment and health professionals, various tiers of government, private sector and communities

• Metro strategies – a collective vision for the future and potential policy foundation for thriving neighborhoods

• Health and liveability must be present in the vision and reinforced specific policies and actions

• Achieved through collaboration – inter-disciplinary ways of thinking working and thinking

• Recognition of all the ‘environments’ that must be addressed, and also regularly monitored and evaluated

Conclusion

Contact: a.wheeler@unsw.edu.au