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Kate Copeland, Director, Statewide Health Services Planning

Health and Social Impact Assessment of the South East Queensland Regional Plan NSW HIA Colloquium Sydney, 9 December 2006. Kate Copeland, Director, Statewide Health Services Planning. Consultant Queensland Health – Public Health Services and Statewide Health Services Planning

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Kate Copeland, Director, Statewide Health Services Planning

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  1. Health and Social Impact Assessment of the South East Queensland Regional PlanNSW HIA ColloquiumSydney, 9 December 2006 Kate Copeland, Director, Statewide Health Services Planning

  2. Consultant Queensland Health – Public Health Services and Statewide Health Services Planning Office of Urban Management Department of Communities Local Government Community/Social Planners Andrea Young Kate Copeland Shannon McKiernan Sophie Dwyer Shannon Rutherford Lisa Pollard Jacinta Sartori Nusch Herman Wil Brown Catherine Boorman John Brown Collaborators

  3. The South East QueenslandRegional Plan 2005-2026 OVERVIEW

  4. SEQ Regional Plan 2005-2026 • The intent is to provide: • a sustainable growth management strategy for SEQ to 2026 • appropriate developable land to meet future population growth • timely and cost-effective infrastructure and services • sound urban development principles that support a compact, well-serviced and efficient urban form

  5. Managing growth to 2026 • Population: 2004 - 2,654,000 • 2026 - 3,709,000 • increase - 1,055,000 • 50,000 extra people/year on average • Housing - 575,000 new dwellings • Employment - 425,000 new jobs • Additional demands on land, environment and natural resources

  6. Strategic directions of Final Plan • Creating a more sustainable future • Protecting and supporting regional landscape and rural production • Enough land to accommodate future growth • Promoting land use efficiency • Enhancing the identity of regional communities • Facilitating growth in the Western Corridor • Supporting rural futures • Providing timely infrastructure and services • Integrating land use, transport and economic activity.

  7. Background to the project • Triggered by release of draft South East Queensland Regional Plan in October 2004 • Trials a combined Health and Social Impact Assessment as a methodology for considering regional planning process

  8. HSIA – key learnings • Development of a shared understanding of combined HSIA methodology among participants • Involvement of a wide range of informants & knowledge holders • Structured approach and successful application of the HSIA methodology • Getting health on the “map” • Dialogue between key players • Responses to the plan • Tools

  9. INITIATIVE/PROJECT DESCRIPTION SCREENING: IS HIA/SIA NEEDED? SCOPING: INITIAL SCAN OF IMPACTS HIA: determinants of health SIA: indicators of social impacts • HIA: HEALTH RISK APPRAISAL • SIA: PREDICT IMPACTS • - profiling/baseline conditions • evidence base/ social indicators HIA: RISK EVALUATION SIA: ASSESS SIGNIFICANCE SIA: PROPOSE ALTERNATIVES HIA: RISK MANAGEMENT SIA: MITIGATION/ENHANCEMENT MONITORING HIA & SIA METHODOLOGIES COMPARED

  10. Determinants of health

  11. Challenges and limitations • Broad nature of policy and resulting analysis • Reliance on existing research • Data availability and gaps • No community input • Limited exploration of particular groups

  12. Documented known relationships between health, wellbeing and environmental conditions • Reviewed changes proposed in Regional Plan • Reviewed existing social and health conditions in SEQ against relevant determinants • Analysed likely impacts • Developed tools and responses

  13. What determinants did we investigate in the region? • Population characteristics and groups • Social and economic characteristics • Lifestyle & behaviours • Access to services • Natural & built environment

  14. What were the main impacts identified? • Income, accessibility, housing, social connectedness and physical activity are critical • Much depends on how it is implemented

  15. Conclusions…directions… • More consistent reporting of social and health data to support planning • Greater capacity to integrate health and social considerations • Improved leverage for social infrastructure funding & co-ordination • Greater capacity for multi-disciplinary planning • Greater capacity to integrate statutory and other planning processes

  16. Priorities for inter-agency collaboration: • Social infrastructure benchmarking, co-ordination and funding • Capacity building • Regional affordable housing & ageing strategies • Matching jobs & population growth • Specific projects (e.g. Ripley Valley, TOD Taskforce) • Monitoring and reporting

  17. Monitoring and research: • Regional Health and Social Conditions Monitoring Project • Consistent indicators • Consistent geographic areas • Integrate existing data • Feed into SEQ State of the Environment report • Research • Impacts of total water cycle management systems • Health status of urban Indigenous people • Impacts of medium/high density housing & neighbourhood design • Impacts of ageing in insecure housing

  18. What are the tools and how can we use them? • Raise the profile of health and wellbeing • Develop a shared understanding of health and wellbeing • Support improved planning and development decisions • Support health and social planners in providing advice and making comment on planning processes and outcomes

  19. WELLBEING Physical Activity Social Connectedness Income Access to services and jobs Affordable Housing Employment Education Social Support TOOL: Summary Of Known Relationships Document

  20. TOOL: Existing Conditions in SEQ(Baseline report)

  21. TOOL. SEQ Regional Plan - Impact Analysis • Detailed assessment of Regional Plan’s proposals, rationale and evidence to support analysis • Useful as resource for advice to Local Growth Management Strategies, Planning Schemes and impact assessment

  22. TOOL: Guidance for planning instruments Provides information for preparing/responding to: • Local Growth Management Strategies • TOD Guidelines • Greenfield Structure Plans • Activity Centre Master Plan • State Government Action Plan

  23. TOOL: Guidance for Impact Assessment • Guidance on assessing health and social impacts from the development of infrastructure proposals eg transport infrastructure

  24. Next steps • Release of report and tools • Negotiate with stakeholders to progress key responses • Planning for service delivery • Evaluation • Explore links with other projects

  25. Thank you For further information please contact Queensland Health’s Health Services Planning Branch on (07) 3239 0922 Note: Guides and tools will be released in the near future to all Local Govt’s and key stakeholders in SEQ

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