Planning Healthy Places: A guide for local authorities in Wales for embedding health in planning policy
Authors: Cheryl Williams, Sue Toner, Liz Green
Published on: 20th November 2025
- Spatial planning
This guidance aims to support those working across urban and rural local authorities in Wales to consider, include and promote health and wellbeing through Local Development Plans (LDPs) and the planning system. It provides evidence and guidance about how this can be achieved and why the links between planning and health are so important. The guide can form the basis of an evidence background paper for LDPs or supplementary planning guidance (SPG) and includes five sections.
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