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• Doncaster - Dig for Victory
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• Kent - Fuel poverty programme
• London Borough of Lewisham - Community Arts Project
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• Sunderland - Community garden project
• Wakefield - The ABLE project
• Walsall - Seeds to Success gardening initiative
• Green spaces for health
• Investigation findings on the urban environment
• Planning for healthy environments
• Let's get physical
• 'Building health'
• Creating places for healthy active lives
• LGC and HSJ Sustainable Communities Awards 2007
• Infrastructure and town planning
• Wye Wood Project

Urban and natural environment

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• 'A clean bill of health': environmental protection work and health Last updated 17 August 2010

  'A clean bill of health': LACORS publication on pollution and the environment.

• Natural environment Last updated 1 June 2009

  Just as the built environment in which we live plays an important role in our health, so does the quality and character of our natural surroundings. There is growing evidence to show that access to the natural environment improves health and well being and prevents illness.

• Doncaster - Community Allotments Last updated 29 April 2010

  The Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council Community Parks Department led this project to provide equipment to improve and enhance community allotment projects. It used funding from Communities for Health.

• Doncaster - Dig for Victory Last updated 28 October 2009

  This project was to improve health and promote healthy lifestyles by creating a community allotment plot.

• Gateshead - Going for the Burn Last updated 23 November 2009

  The project's aims included improving the use of the countryside, and providing alternative education for young people over 14 years old, especially those from a disadvantaged background.

• Kent - Fuel poverty programme Last updated 23 November 2009

  Kent Public Health Department is working with Kent County Council’s Environment, Highways and Waste Directorate on the Kent Area Based Domestic Retrofit Programme.

• London Borough of Lewisham - Community Arts Project Last updated 27 November 2009

  The aim of this initiative was to create a community peace garden to promote mental wellbeing and exercise.

• Salford - Daisies environmental schemes Last updated 27 October 2009

  Delivering an improved Salford in environmental schemes (DAISIES) encourages local residents to make more use of outdoor space, improving the environment and people’s health.

• Sunderland - Community garden project Last updated 20 October 2009

  As part of Sunderland’s intergenerational programme, funding from Communities for Health was given to restore a garden at a local day centre.

• Wakefield - The ABLE project Last updated 20 October 2009

  The ABLE project provides employment, training and development opportunities for disadvantaged young people.

• Walsall - Seeds to Success gardening initiative Last updated 29 October 2009

  Seeds to Success was an innovative project that built on earlier work involving a tool loan scheme and volunteering to help people tend their gardens.

• Green spaces for health – quality as well as the quantity Last updated 2 December 2009

  Article on how green spaces can aide health.

• Investigation findings on the urban environment Last updated 30 December 2009

  The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution recently published the findings of its investigation into the urban environment. For a report on the environment, it had plenty to say about health, writes Andrew Ross.

• Planning for healthy environments Last updated 4 April 2009

  Ways in which planning has helped shape healthy environments. Examination of ongoing projects.

• Let's get physical Last updated 11 May 2007

  Andrew Ross reviews Active Design, a new publication by Sport England, which encourages planners and architects to design places which encourage people to be active.

• 'Building health' Last updated 28 August 2007

  Could the next health promotion champions be local authority transport engineers? The government advisor on the built environment, CABE, believes they should be.

• Creating places for healthy active lives Last updated 23 August 2007

  The Building Health report looks at how transport and planning policies unintentionally create barriers to physical activity.

• LGC and HSJ Sustainable Communities Awards 2007 Last updated 27 March 2007

  Event to celebrate the LGC and HSJ Sustainable Communities Awards winners 2007 in the healthy communities category.

• The role of infrastructure and town planning in health improvement Last updated 26 November 2009

  This article explores Bristol's aim to get more people walking and cycling.

• Wye Wood Project Last updated 28 March 2008

  The ‘Wye Wood – the wider wood’ project was developed by a partnership of organisations including Herefordshire County Council. The Herefordshire Sustain Project coordinated the initiative.