Great news that Buckfastleigh has been granted a Health Impact Assessment survey as part of the planning process for Whitecleave Quarry. Something that we have long campaigned for.
Now we need community views as to what counts. Please click on the poll to the right (top 5 only please as we need an idea of relative importance). Add comments below or email directly. Please see the information provided by Devon's Public Health Directorate.
Message from Head of Health Improvement (South Locality), Public Health Directorate, NHS Devon:
Whitecleaves Quarry HIA Scoping
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an evidence-based process that aims to predict the positive and negative impacts of a strategy, proposal or development on the health of a population.
The criteria for assessment in the Whitecleaves Quarry HIA are to be agreed by a steering group (scoping), it is proposed that evidence will be gathered for a baseline assessment which will be tested by the steering group in the form of a draft HIA which will be reviewed and result in a final report. Consideration can be given to the wider determinants of health and well-being in neighbourhoods.
The scope has yet to be agreed but can include health and well-being in the widest sense as demonstrated by the health map below.
A Health Map. © Barton and Grant 2010 (based on a public health concept by Whitehead and Dahlgren.1991)
The steering group will have membership from public health (NHS), Devon County Council, Environmental Health, Health Protection Agency and the Environment Agency it is important to have resident involvement and whilst the views in planning correspondence can be incorporated the residents view at each stage are important particularly at the scoping stage. The applicant will be tasked to complete the HIA but it should provide an independent view overseen by the steering group.
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