Health and Wellbeing
As Urban Designers and Landscape Planners we are uniquely positioned to help create an environment which encourages people to get out and about, increase their levels of physical activity and take pleasure in the world around us. Through careful consideration of the location and accessibility of open space and recreation facilities, attention to connectivity between residential, commercial and public precincts, and the promotion of integrated public transport systems for new developments, as well as advocating best practice principles for existing sites, CLOUSTON aims to work as an agent for change in the way communities operate to enhance the health and wellbeing of their members.
One way of promoting better health is to enhance walkability in our urban communities. P2P, or Policy to Pavement, is a simple and adaptable tool developed collaboratively by CLOUSTON Associates (Sydney), One Eighty Sports and Leisure Solutions (Adelaide), and Visualvoice (Melbourne), which can be used to assess how walkable our local environment is, which areas have the highest need and how we might go about retrofitting walking environments to our existing urban environments. To find out more about how P2P can contribute to making your local area more ‘liveable’, visit the P2P website.