The English planning system, the built environment and preventative mental healthcare: Identifying gaps in alignment and promoting integration

James Mcgowan and Robert Qi
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James Mcgowan: Urban Planner
Robert Qi: The University of Liverpool

Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 2020, vol. 13, issue 3, 328-336

Abstract: Within the English planning system, there is increasing recognition that the quality of city-spaces and the built environment can have a direct and indirect impact upon the mental health of those who dwell within. It follows that urban planning, regeneration and renewal, and the well-designed places they strive to create, have a central role to play in preventative and rehabilitative mental healthcare. Nevertheless, the integration into planning policy and practice of mental health considerations remains in its infancy. An opportunity, if not an imperative, exists to accelerate and scale the dialogue. In support of this endeavour, this paper identifies the principal ongoing gaps in alignment between the English planning policy, place-making and mental health promotion and care, and signposts priority actions for improved integration.

Keywords: mental health; built environment; planning policy; place-making; city renewal; National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 Z33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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