{
  "abstract": "Background An individual’s place of residence can influence their exposure to health determinants, such as access to green space. There is a responsibility for planning departments and policy makers to consider health and wellbeingResidential amenity space is generally considered to be the shared space within or between buildings (communal) and space solely for use by individual dwelling’s occupiers, e.g. balconies/gardens (private). Amenity spaces are important when considering the health impacts of residential urban development. This was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in densely populated, ethnically diverse and deprived areas of cities.The planning team within one local authority introduced an intervention to improve healthy placemaking through provision of quality amenity space within residential developments. This study aimed to evaluate the implementation of this intervention into the planning process.Methods The Place Quality Intervention comprises; a Supplementary Planning Document on Residential Amenity Space and Place Quality, a mandatory template for applicants, planning officer training and the introduction of a Community Review Panel to provide feedback on planning applications. This is guidance that all those submitting applications are expected to adhere to.We conducted 43 semi-structured interviews with a variety of stakeholders; applicant teams (n=12), planning/housing staff (n=9), public health team (n=3), quality review panel (n=5), community review panel (n=9), staff who organised review panels (n=2) and elected members (n=3). Interviews were analysed using framework analysis.Results Most participants perceived the intervention to be acceptable and have the potential to improve healthy placemaking.Barriers to implementation included applicant burden, design constraints and competing priorities, such as profit margins. The importance of post-occupancy management for communal amenity spaces was considered a barrier to the intervention leading to healthier placemaking, alongside concerns around safe usage, the associated maintenance fees and their potential to affect health inequalities.Reported facilitators included the potential economic benefit and support from planning officers and review panels.Conclusion The main limitation of this study is the inability to assess the quality of the developments once they have been built, due to timelines. Barriers to implementation need to be addressed going forwards. Further research should evaluate health and wellbeing outcomes and explore any inequalities in provision, maintenance and use of amenity space, once these residential developments are built. This intervention has the potential to be refined and rolled out to other local authorities to improve consideration of healthy placemaking within planning applications for residential developments.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Public Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Hannah Littlecott"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Public Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Chloe Forte"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Public Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Rona Campbell"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Public Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Georgina Wort"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Public Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Judi Kidger"
    }
  ],
  "title": "P29 Implementation of a new intervention in a local authority for residential amenity space and place quality in planning. A systems perspective",
  "uid": "5ecd1df4-3c2b-5cef-addf-ff68a85d0584"
}