Healthier

Developing healthy communities is now at the forefront of decision making.

A Health Impact Assessment is now a validation requirement for major planning applications in many local authorities. This creates challenges and opportunities. While applicants face a greater responsibility to assess health impacts, it also opens the door to identifying positive impacts that could strengthen the scheme’s pathway through to approval.

Our assessments cover both bases, demonstrating how the development has the potential to improve health and well-being of local communities through quantitative modelling and making practical recommendations to enhance the scheme.

Healthier integrates various UK guidance methodologies for Heath Impact Assessments into a comprehensive, data-driven framework. Paired with Lichfields’ expertise in planning, economics, community engagement and GIS analysis, it offers a holistic assessment of health impacts. Our reports are tailored to meet the requirements of local planning authorities and can be applied across any sector and scale of development.