Real Estate Investment

• To promote the incorporation of health considerations in property investment and land development processes.
• To explore with knowledgeable stakeholders how health and wellbeing indicators can be incorporated, alongside other ESG data, in property portfolio management and financial investment risk appraisal.
• To further the inclusion of health elements in local planning design code guidance for land development, and potential extension to local economic strategy.

• The intervention team will identify key stakeholders within the property financial investment industries through high level industry collaborations. This will be followed by a scoping exercise to identify what process change is required and where. Communications with key partners will consider the development of resources designed to support health outcomes in the sector.
• Communications with key partners will consider the development of resources designed to support health outcomes in the sector.
• Through participating in an OHID consultation on National Model Design Code guidance to promote health and wellbeing, the intervention team will develop advice notes on place-based health considerations to inform key decision-making stakeholders.

Embedding healthier decision-making in the urban development actor network

Improving the conversation with real estate for healthier urban planning

Professor Kathy Pain at the University of Reading

Dr Nalumino Akakandelwa at the University of the West of England