Local authorities and councils necessarily consider a wide range of criteria in assessing planning applications. This, alongside pressures on their resources and skills, makes it difficult for them to prioritise ensuring that planning promotes health. The lack of changes to requirements relating to health in the revised National Planning Policy Framework is a disappointing missed opportunity to make promotion of health a higher priority for planning authorities.

Local authorities and councils necessarily consider a wide range of criteria in assessing planning applications. This, alongside pressures on their resources and skills, makes it difficult for them to prioritise ensuring that planning promotes health. The lack of changes to requirements relating to health in the revised National Planning Policy Framework is a disappointing missed opportunity to make promotion of health a higher priority for planning authorities. Type: conclusion | Number: 8 | Paragraph: 37 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: Accept As the committee’s report notes, much of what keeps us healthy lies outside the NHS and social care system. The quality of places where people live, work and age and children learn, grow and play is critical to our health - from good quality housing to well-designed neighbourhoods that ensure