Today the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have announced a £200m funding boos to the public health grant, equating to an increase of...
We’ve chosen to bid farewell to Twitter/X, as we feel the platform no longer aligns with our beliefs and values. Our profile will remain active...
The National Planning Policy Framework was updated today, featuring welcome amendments on preventing hot food takeaways from opening where children learn and play, and increasing...
Starting October 2025, new regulations will prohibit advertisements for less healthy food from airing on television before 9pm or targeting children online. This important step...
In our latest guest blog, we hear from Charlotte Pickles and Rachel Tyrrell-Smith, Public Health Development Managers at Blackburn with Darwen Council to find out...
Our latest guest blog from Kate Howard, Children's Food Campaign Coordinator, discusses the implications and opportunities for food industry change following the Autumn Budget. Is 2025...
Earlier this week, the new government released the consultation on the revised National Planning Policy Framework, which includes welcome amends which references the role planning...
Today the Healthier Place, Healthier Future programme is launching the ‘Planning for Healthy Food Environments’ toolkit, developed in partnership with Sustain, to supports the creation...
A summary post of the Place Alliance Report, October 2020. The Coronavirus Crisis (2019) has highlighted many things: from food poverty, living standards, our need for...
Michael Chang MRTPI is Town and Country Planning Association Project and Policy Manager leading its Reuniting Health with Planning initiative. In addition to delivering the...
Powers to ban junk food advertising near schools, nurseries and children's centres should be given to councils in a bid to beat the childhood obesity...
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