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8 Healthy Living 8 Healthy Living 8.0.1 The Core Strategy aims to create a healthier and greener borough by protecting existing open spaces and habitats, and encouraging the creation of new ones. Such spaces are important sites for recreation, relaxation and exercise, and have an important ecological and environmental function. Development should create a healthy environment and not contribute to negative health outcomes. The provision of play space, and sport and recreation provision, is also important to support a healthy population alongside health care provision. This section contains policies to support and implement Core Strategy policies in these areas. Implementing Core Strategy Policy This chapter helps implement the following Core Strategy Policies: Policy 15 Open Space and Green Infrastructure, Policy 16 Play Space, Policy 17 Sport and Recreation Provision, Policy IMP 2 Health Impact Assessments 8.0.2 Islington is one of the most deprived London boroughs and life expectancy is below the national average for both men and women. There are notable inequalities in life expectancy within Islington, depending on levels of deprivation. Poor health is widespread in the borough and there are higher than average levels of coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, mental health problems, drug misuse, teenage pregnancy and smoking. 8.0.3 NHS Islington’s Commissioning Strategy Plan 2008-13 identifies preventing obesity as a priority for Islington because weight and obesity has a major impact on health, increasing the chances of developing diabetes, cancer, and heart and liver disease, and often resulting in low self-esteem and poorer quality of life. Policy DM 46 Healthy Development A. Developments are required to provide healthy environments, reduce environmental stresses, facilitate physical activity and promote mental well-being. Development that contributes to negative health outcomes will be refused. B. The council will support the provision of new and improved health facilities and their co-location with other community uses, subject to an assessment of the full range of planning considerations. C. Major developments are required to mitigate health impacts identified in the submitted Health Impact Assessment, through planning obligations. 100 Islington Council Development Management Policies - Direction of Travel
8 Healthy Living D. Publicly accessible major developments and open spaces are required to provide and manage publicly accessible toilets and drinking water fountains. 8.0.4 Development can improve people's health in Islington by facilitating and encouraging healthy lifestyles, reducing environmental stresses, and promoting mental well-being. For example, new development can improve healthy eating by increasing the availability and access to healthy foods and increase participation in physical activity by improving the built environment and green space, thereby increasing access to facilities. Conversely development can have negative health impacts, for example, by discouraging walking and cycling, increasing the supply of unhealthy foods, increasing air pollution and noise, and reducing visual and physical access to green spaces. (3) 8.0.5 A lack of toilet facilities at the right time in the right place contributes to dirty streets that are unsanitary, unpleasant and can spread infection. Public toilets in places like parks and promenades help to encourage people who may need regular toilet access to take exercise and stay physically active. Public access to toilets is important for local shops and businesses too and being able to access a toilet is a fundamental need of any visitor to an area. (4) Publicly accessible major developments such as shops are expected to provide and manage publicly accessible toilets. Smaller publicly accessible developments are encouraged to provide publicly accessible toilets where possible. 8.0.6 Access to clean water is essential for our wellbeing and health. Clean water is easily available in homes, but in public places and buildings such as shops it can be difficult to find freely accessible drinking water. Bottled water is expensive and uses environmental resources. Although tap water may be available in places such as cafés and pubs these are not accessible to everyone. Lack of free drinking water in parks and places where children play can encourage them to consume high calorie soft drinks which are linked to childhood obesity and tooth decay (5) . Ensuring there is a good supply of public drinking water fountains in Islington will improve public health and is more environmentally and socially sustainable that buying bottled water. 3 Effect of exposure to natural environment on health inequalities: an observational population study. Mitchell, R. and Popham, F. The Lancet - 8 November 2008 (Vol. 372, Issue 9650, Pages 1655 - 1660) 4 Improving Public Access to Better Quality Toilets, A Strategic Guide. DCLG, 2008 5 Thirsty play: A survey of drinking water provision in public parks. The Children's Food Campaign, May 2010 Development Management Policies - Direction of Travel Islington Council 101
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