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Welcome to Healthy Places


Healthy Places focuses on legal areas that are new, interesting, often not fully understood, or, not recognised at all as having a potential impact on health in a local area.

It highlights areas of law that have the potential to change local environments and encourage more active lifestyles and better diets, and to improve the health of a community.

Healthy Places is not a checklist of health measures for local communities to adopt; instead this site explains the operation of laws that could enable, or place limits on, local government and community activity that affects the healthiness of a place. 

Case studies are an important practical example of how others have used the regulatory environment to promote physical activity or healthy eating in their areas- shaping healthier places to live in.

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Enabling Active Travel

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Walking and cycling through active travel provides opportunities for everyday physical activity.

Promoting Active Communities

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Healthy, active lives can be fostered through the creation of more activity-friendly places.

Access to Healthy Food

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For people to make healthy food choices, healthy food options need to be available and accessible. 

Case Studies

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Practical examples of how law has been used to promote healthier local places 
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