Rod King, 20’s Plenty for Us
Caroline Russell, Islington Living Streets
Jeremy Leach, 20’s Plenty for Us and Jacqueline Saunders, Camden Council
Videos produced by Brian Jones from Media for the Web. The masterclass was part of 3Space’s Re:THINK festival and was held in association with 20’s Plenty for Us and Living Streets.
Reducing urban speed limits makes streets safer and more pleasant places to be – helping to encourage walking and cycling, revitalise local high streets and reduce air pollution.
8.5 million people around the UK (including 1.5 million in London) already live in local authorities with a policy of rolling out 20mph limits on most roads. These include cities such as Oxford, Cambridge, York and Liverpool, and the whole of Lancashire.
This masterclass will explore the reasons why implementing 20mph across London makes sense and consider how to successfully campaign for lower speed limits on streets where people live, work and shop.
Rod King and Jeremy Leach from 20’s Plenty for Us will outline the wide range of social, economic and environmental benefits of 20mph and explain how its 189 local campaigns are transforming the way our roads are shared; and Caroline Russell from Islington Living Streets will explain how and why Islington became the first borough in London to implement 20mph on all their streets.
7pm on Wednesday 1st May at 3Space Blackfriars, 58 Victoria Embankment, EC4Y 0DS.
The masterclass is free but space is limited, please register here if you’d like to attend.
This event is part of 3Space’s Re:Think Festival and is being held in association with Living Streets and 20’s Plenty for Us.
Public Health Outcomes Framework transport related indicators – referred to in the above presentation, this is the full list of all the Public Health Outcome measures that local authorities will be assessed against highlighting those indicators related to transport.
Evidence
Healthy transport = healthy lives British Medical Association (2012) – Summary of the links between health and transport
Health on the Move 2: Policies for health-promoting transport Mindell JS, Watkins SJ, Gohen JM (eds) (2011) – Comprehensive overview of evidence for the range of health issues relating to transport
Transport, physical activity and health: present knowledge and the way ahead Mackett, RL & Brown B (2011)- Review of the evidence on physical activity and transport which finds the key means of increasing physical activity is through reducing car use while retaining accessibility
Fairness in a car dependent society Sustainable Development Commission (2011) – Evidence and policy recommendations for inequalities and transport
Essential evidence: the benefits of cycling and walking – one page evidence summaries of various topics by Adrian Davis, Bristol City Council
NICE Guidance
‘Gold standard’ evidence based guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence (NICE) relating to active travel. These are summarised in NICE’s pathway for local authorities.
Public Health Guidance 8 Promoting and creating built or natural environments that encourage and support physical activity (January 2008)
Public Health Guidance 13 Promoting Physical Activity in the workplace (May 2008)
Public Health Guidance 17 Physical activity and Children (January 2009)
Public Health Guidance 25 Prevention of CVD at a population level (June 2010)
Public Health Guidance 31 Preventing unintentional road injuries among under-15s: road design (November 2010)
Public Health Guidance 41 Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation (November, 2012)
Tools
Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and cycling World Health Organisation (2011) – Online tool to estimate the economic savings from increasing walking and/or cycling:
Public Health Outcomes Framework Data Tool London Health Observatory (2012) – Tool for comparing local authorities by their performance against each of the Public Health Outcome Framework Measures
Standard evaluation framework for physical activity interventions National Obesity Observatory (2012) -Tool for evaluating the effectiveness of walking and cycling projects
Health Urban Development Unit – Tools for assessing the health impacts of planning
Air Quality Guide for each London borough Greater London Authority.
National Heart Forum Healthy Places website – Resource explaining the operation of laws that could enable, or place limits on, local government and community activity that affects the healthiness of a place including case studies of how others have used the regulatory environment to promote physical activity
Policy
Take action on active travel: why a shift from car dominated transport policy would benefit public health Sustrans (2010) – A useful resource for policy recommendations and related policy documents on this subject
Health Impact Assessment of Transport Initiatives: A Guide Douglas M, Thomson H, Jepson R, Hurley F, Higgins M, Muirie J, Gorman D (eds) (2007) -Policy background, evidence and guidance on health impact assessment for transport and health
Transport data
Transport Statistics Great Britain: 2010 edition Department for Transport (2011) – Survey data of travel habits in Great Britain
London Travel Demand Survey Transport for London (2011) – Survey data of travel habits in London
We still have a few spaces available if you’d like to attend our Transport and Public Health Masterclass, which will be held at City Hall at 6.30pm on Wednesday 21st November.
The masterclass is free to attend, but space is limited so please contact us if you’d like to attend.
Responsibility for Public Health is moving from the NHS to local authorities providing a new opportunity to make the case for transport interventions on the basis of improving health. Come to our first masterclass to find out how to make the most of this opportunity from Lucy Saunders, a specialist in Public Health and transport.
Lucy Saunders is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, she has worked in the public health system in London for 10 years in Primary Care Trusts, Health Protection Agency, Department of Health, World Health Organisation, PwC and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She now works for the Greater London Authority integrating public health into transport and planning across London.
The masterclass will cover:
We hope you can join us for the masterclass which will be held at City Hall on Wednesday 21st November from 6.30 – 8pm. Please let us know if you’d like to attend.
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