| Organisation name |
NSW Premier's Council lfor Active Living |
| Organisation type |
Governmental organisation |
| Organisation fields |
- Health
- Food / Nutrition
- Urban / town planning
- Landscape architecture
- Transport
- Environment
- Interagency organisation
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| Description |
PCAL provides best practice interagency collaboration to promote increased levels of healthy eating and active living in NSW. |
| Commenced Work |
Five to 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
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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)
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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 safety from traffic for pedestrians and cyclists
- 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 |
- Advocating for places where people can meet and connect
- Input into planning processes that advocate for and strengthen social connectivity
- Influencing the location of facilities within a community to ensure they are convenient, central and clustered with other facilities
- Promoting equitable access to community facilities
- Promoting interaction in public spaces including gardens, town squares, parks and lively streetscapes
- Encouraging supportive social networks within neighbourhoods and participation in decision-making
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| The organisation addresses the following areas of work in relation to providing access to healthy food |
- Mapping food service locations (including fast food outlets, access to fresh fruit and vegetables and vending machines)
- Advocating/supporting facilities (e.g. water fountains, community gardens, fresh food markets and allotments, breastfeeding locations etc.)
- Supporting local food production (e.g., through zoning and land use regulation)
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| The organisation takes part in the following specific HBE activities |
Undertakes cost benefit analyses of transport projects.
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| Target Population |
- General population
- Children
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Older people
- Women
- Indigenous people
- People with disabilities
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| Geographic Focus of HBE activities |
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| Website |
http://www.pcal.nsw.gov.au/ |
