Organisation name |
Department of Planning and Infrastructure |
Organisation type |
Governmental organisation |
Organisation fields |
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Description |
The Department's role is to facilitate: - Sustainable growth in the right locations; - Improved investor and community confidence; - Diverse, equitable and pleasant neighbourhoods which reflect community needs and aspirations; and - Integrated delivery of regional infrastructure and government activities. The role of my section is to provide policy research and support which assists in achieving the Department's priorities. |
Commenced Work |
More than ten years ago |
Type(s) of HBE Activity |
- Policy development
- Advocacy for healthy built environments
- Research to better understand healthy built environments
- Translating research into policy
- Capacity building / staff training
- Information resource
- Guidelines for practitioners
- Tools for practitioners
- Provision of physical infrastructure
- Workplace initiative (e.g. end of trip facilities)
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Key objectives of HBE activities |
- To improve people's physical health
- To increase people's physical activity level
- To strengthen social capital
- To promote active transport (walking, cycling, public transport)
- To reduce crime through more people on the streets / passive surveillance
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The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to getting people active |
- Promoting walking for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting cycling for daily travel / recreation
- Promoting use of public transportation for daily travel
- Reducing urban sprawl
- Providing public open space
- Providing recreational facilities / playgrounds
- Improving residential and commercial densities, land use mix
- Improving connectivity
- Improving accessibility
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The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to strengthening and connecting communities |
- Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
- Influencing proximity to places of employment
- Other - Addresses all of these to varying degrees and in different contexts
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The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to providing access to healthy food |
- Supporting local food production (e.g., through zoning and land use regulation)
- Advocating for public transport measures that support access to healthy food (e.g. schedules and timetables and routes, space to store parcels en route, shopping shuttles, home delivery services and/or support for local corner shops and convenience stores)
- Other - Involved in signage issues in some circumstances in conjunction with other departments (education/transport).
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The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities |
Planning for Centres - guidance; Planning for Places of Public Worship - guideance; Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney; Regional Action Plans; Review of State Environmental Planning Policies including those relating to: affordable housing; rural lands; intensive agriculture; design quality of residential flat development; Infrastructure; protecting Sydney's water supply; urban bushland; and development standards. -Input into the new Planning System (White Paper due for release in December 2012).
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Target Population |
- General population
- Other - Guidance generally for practitioners who will implement the policies which are for the benefit of the entire population (although some are specific e.g housing for older people and people with a disability).
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Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
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Website |
http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/ |