Planners and health staff collaborating on the Greater Granville Regeneration Scheme HIA

So What?The experience in Australia suggests that HIAs on land use planning proposals, led by the health sector, can be influential in Building capacity of the health system and other sectors to undertake HIA on different types of land use planning proposals Build relationships between the health and land use planning sector that enable ongoing collaboration.

However, ongoing support for HIA from the health sector is required to institutionalise HIA as an approach to influence land-use planning

Land Use Planning HIAs Supported or Conducted by UNSW CPHCE 2004-2009

Year NameType of

ProposalPopulation Affected Level of HIA Sectors Involved in HIA

2004 Shellharbour Foreshore Development HIA Plan50,000 estimated current users of area

Intermediate Health, local government

2005

Lower Hunter Regional Strategy (Health) Social Impact Assessment

Plan 630,000 estimated future pop505,000 current population Intermediate

Health, Education, Community Services, Housing, Sport & Recreation, Planning, Police, Premier’s & Cabinet

Population Plan for Bungendore HIA Plan4-6,000 estimated future pop2,806 current population Intermediate Health, Local Government

Sydney Metropolitan Strategy HIA Plan600,000 estimated future pop305,440 current population Comprehensive

Health, Local Government, Planning, Transport, + 15 others

Greater Granville Regeneration Scheme HIA Plan1,500 public housing tenants22,889 indirectly Intermediate Health, Housing, Local government

Wollongong Foreshore Precinct Plan HIA Plan1,769 directlyUp to 184,212 indirectly Rapid Health, Local government

2006 Liverpool Hospital Capital Works HIA Project420,000 estimated catchment380,00 current catchment Intermediate Health

2007

Coffs Harbour Our Living City Settlement Strategy HIA

Plan35-40,000 estimated future pop26,353 current population Rapid Health, Local Government

Oran Park and Turner Road Land Release HIA Plan14,000 estimated future popNo current population

RapidHealth, Local Government, Growth Centres Commission

Lithgow 25 Year Strategic Plan HIA Plan22,000 estimated future pop 19,756 current population Intermediate Health, Local Government

2009

Liverpool Hospital Design Phase Equity Focused HIA

Project420,000 estimated catchment380,00 current catchment Rapid Health

Townsville Centre Redevelopment HIA Project 94,749 current population Rapid Health, Local Government

Mackay Regional Development Plan HIA Plan243,000 estimated future pop

143,000 current populationIntermediate

Planning and infrastructure, Health, Communities

The Health Sector’s Use of Health Impact Assessment to Inform Land Use Planning in AustraliaPatrick Harris, Ben Harris-Roxas

Email: patrick.harris@unsw.edu.au | Phone +61 2 9612 0779 |Web http://www.hiaconnect.edu.auMail: CHETRE, LMB 7103, Liverpool BC NSW 1871, Australia

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Health sector leadership enabled practicalengagement with intersectoral stakeholders across a wide range of urban related areas. Without this leadership it is unlikely these HIAs would have occurred

Local government were particularly receptive to HIA as a process that brought evidence to support the development of proposals The success of these HIAs has resulted in the health sector in New South Wales investing in developing healthy built environments. However it is not clear to date where HIA can best be institutionalised within this agendaLocal government and health sector staff

working on the Bungendore HIA

BackgroundHIA capacity building efforts in Australia, with a particular focus on New South Wales, have included HIAs on a range different land-use planning activities. Lessons from these HIAs include:

A ‘learning by doing’ approach focussing on ‘urban health HIAs’ engaged stakeholders with a structured process for

Gathering and using multiple sources of evidence to inform decision making

Explicitly considering equity issues Discussing trade-offs concerning the

built environment and human health