The Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme used the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes to guide the place element of our approach.
The Place and Wellbeing Outcomes set out the things we know we need to get right about a place for people and planet to thrive and are all the features that have a positive impact on place.
We define place as the geographic area or physical environment where people of different ages, population groups, interests, and identity live, learn, work, socialise and interact. Learn more about why place matters, placemaking and place-based working on the Planning for Place pages and a blog by our partner organisation Public Health Scotland (PHS).
The Outcomes provide a consistent and comprehensive focus for where place impacts on the wellbeing of people and planet. They are also key features for delivering Scotland’s local living and 20-minute neighbourhood ambition. There are thirteen Place and Wellbeing Outcomes, organised by five themes – Movement, Spaces, Resources, Civic, and Stewardship.
Their development has been supported by the organisations that sit on the Place and Wellbeing Collaborative. More background information and context to the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes can be found in this briefing paper, on this web page and in this introductory video.
Local Project Action 2022-2024
Through our Local Project Action between 2022-2024 in our seven Project Towns we worked with stakeholders to embed the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes into their decision-making process in policy and implementation. They ensure everyone is working together as part of a whole systems approach and that every aspect of a place is being considered.
To support the embedment of the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes we carried out the following activities:
- Place and Wellbeing Assessments, which supported the Outcomes to be brought into decision-making processes as detailed on the Decision-making page.
- Creating Place and Wellbeing Outcome Briefings which explained the evidenced impact of the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes on the communities that we were working in. You can read these Briefings and find out how this concise combination of data and evidence can then inform local decision-making.
- The Place and Wellbeing Collaborative also asked Public Health Scotland to develop a set of evidence-informed briefings in relation to each of the five themes within the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes. Head over to the Planning for Place Programme pages to read these Briefings in more detail.
- We delivered training for organisations seeking to share learning within their own organisations and delivered a Masterclass on the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes.
The approach of the Programme to embedding the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes was developed through testing and learning in the Project Towns through Local Project Action. We captured and shared our learning through blog posts, impact stories and reports. For example:
- Why should planners use the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes
- Embedding the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes in the Rutherglen Town Centre Strategy
Based on our experience delivering local project action to embed the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes, we believe people have certain experiences, behaviours, attitudes, values and motivations when engaged in our activities helps to enable system change. We referred to these as the “mechanisms of change” and are captured in this document.
If the Shaping Places for Wellbeing place-based approach sounds like something you would like to know more about, please contact Irene Beautyman, Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead, below. Alternatively, follow us on LinkedIn - Planning and Place-Based Approaches, to keep up to date with the Planning and Place-Based Programmes from within the Improvement Service, and X @place4wellbeing to recap on the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme’s journey
Irene Beautyman - Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead
Phone: 07908 930763
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