Health impact assessment in the UK planning system: the possibilities and limits of community engagement

Chadderton, Chloe, Elliott, Eva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1583-2603, Hacking, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2219-7724, Shepherd, Michael Allan and Williams, Gareth Howard 2013. Health impact assessment in the UK planning system: the possibilities and limits of community engagement. Health Promotion International 28 (4) , pp. 533-543. 10.1093/heapro/das031

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Abstract

This paper explores the use of health impact assessment (HIA) as a means of facilitating community engagement in spatial planning. The paper discusses the background to the development of HIA as a tool for assessing the likely impact of policies and wider changes on health with a view to building those into planning and decision-making, and describes the evolution of HIA into more participatory forms. It then goes on to describe a case-study of plans for a waste incinerator in an inner-city area in the UK, where HIA was used in response to community concerns about the development as a means of building in the views of local people to the decision-making around the plan. We describe in detail how the HIA was conducted and additional research undertaken within a timescale set by the planning processes. We discuss the difficulties involved in conducting any kind of research-based HIA so rapidly and in a situation of multiple, competing stakeholder interests. We argue that although the HIA failed to influence the final decisions in this particular instance it does, nonetheless, provide a model for how to create ‘knowledge spaces’ in which different perspectives and information can be brought around the table to create more democratic approaches to planning for waste.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Cardiff Institute of Society and Health (CISHE) Architecture
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords:	HIA; planning; communities
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0957-4824
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2023 02:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33423

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