Policy Workshop: Healthy Cambridge

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CSaP Policy Workshop on Healthy Cambridge

The built environment significantly influences people's daily lives, shaping their physical, mental, and social well-being. Spatial planning, as a key component of the broader built environment and real estate sectors, holds considerable potential to support public health. However, these two domains—spatial planning and public health—are often disconnected in relevant policy strategies.

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The Policy Workshop drew on participants’ expertise to understand what makes Cambridge different and distinct, and where lessons can be drawn from elsewhere. The discussion explored how Greater Cambridge can evolve in a way that supports community health (physical, social, and mental well-being) and which pathways should be prioritised in delivering this outcome. The workshop aimed to address the following questions:

• What might a Healthy Cambridge look like?
• How can health professionals, planning professionals, local authorities and others work together to deliver a Healthy Cambridge?
• What mechanisms and practical steps could enable productive multistakeholder collaboration in this space?
• What are the lessons learned and best practices from recent/ongoing projects that could be drawn on here?
• What further research would be helpful to support the development and delivery of this work?

The workshop was organised in partnership with the Cambridge Room and Professor Flora Samuel, Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge.