Health and Social Impact Assessment of the South East Queensland Regional Plan NSW HIA Colloquium Sydney, 9 December 2006

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

• 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

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The South East Queensland Regional
Plan 2005-2026 OVERVIEW
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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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HIA SIA METHODOLOGIES COMPARED
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Determinants of health
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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

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• 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

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What determinants did we investigate in the
region?

• Population characteristics and groups
• Social and economic characteristics
• Lifestyle behaviours
• Access to services
• Natural built environment

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What were the main impacts identified?

• Income, accessibility, housing, social
  connectedness and physical activity are critical
• Much depends on how it is implemented

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Conclusionsdirections

• 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

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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

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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

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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

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TOOL Summary Of Known Relationships Document
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TOOL Existing Conditions in SEQ(Baseline report)
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TOOL. SEQ Regional Plan - Impact Analysis

• Detailed assessment of Regional Plans proposals,
  rationale and evidence to support analysis
• Useful as resource for advice to Local Growth
  Management Strategies, Planning Schemes and
  impact assessment

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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

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TOOL Guidance for Impact Assessment

• Guidance on assessing health and social impacts
  from the development of infrastructure proposals
  eg transport infrastructure

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Next steps

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

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Thank you

For further information please contact Queensland
Healths Health Services Planning Branch on (07)
3239 0922 Note Guides and tools will be
released in the near future to all Local Govts
and key stakeholders in SEQ