• To promote the incorporation of health considerations in property investment and land development processes.
  • To explore with knowledgeable stakeholders how health and wellbeing indicators can be incorporated, alongside other ESG data, in property portfolio management and financial investment risk appraisal.
  • To further the inclusion of health elements in local planning design code guidance for land development, and potential extension to local economic strategy.
  • The intervention team will identify key stakeholders within the property financial investment industries through high level industry collaborations. This will be followed by a scoping exercise to identify what process change is required and where. Communications with key partners will consider the development of resources designed to support health outcomes in the sector.
  • Communications with key partners will consider the development of resources designed to support health outcomes in the sector.
  • Through participating in an OHID consultation on National Model Design Code guidance to promote health and wellbeing, the intervention team will develop advice notes on place-based health considerations to inform key decision-making stakeholders.

Professor Kathy Pain at the University of Reading

Dr Nalumino Akakandelwa at the University of the West of England