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Thursday 8 October 2026 Leicester City Hall
LE1 1FZ

DELIVERING THE HEALTHY PLACES AGENDA

Transport, planning and health 2026

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Key policy directions are increasingly linking transport, planning and health around a healthy places agenda, where transport is no longer treated simply as mobility infrastructure, but as a public health, spatial planning and economic inclusion tool..

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Transport, planning and health 2026, now in its sixth successful year, will bring together leaders and practitioners from across transport, public health, planning and policy, active travel and communications to chart an evidence-based path towards the creation of connected and healthy communities across the UK.

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Through keynote addresses, panel discussions and practical breakout sessions, the conference will explore how we move beyond isolated interventions towards collaborative working between public health practitioners, planning authorities, transport authorities and the NHS.

 

It will examine what works, how to deliver change in a challenging political and funding environment, and how professionals can better collaborate to turn ambition into reality.

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The programme will showcase real-world examples of delivery from across the UK, and explore case studies, emerging frameworks, tools, technology and policy in these key areas:

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  • Healthy communities as transport and planning objectives

  • The integration of transport, health and land-use planning

  • Active travel as preventative healthcare

  • Planning for neighbourhood health

  • Accessibility, inclusion and transport poverty

  • Clean transport as a public health policy – decarbonisation and environmental quality

  • Improving health equity – the social, environmental and economic determinants of health

  • Understanding place-based interventions

  • Delivering better in a devolved – and newly different – political landscape

  • Aligning visions when political perspectives widen

Call for papers

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We are looking for content in the following areas:

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  • Integrating health, well-being and social inclusion with urban development, planning and transport

  • Implementing new Neighbourhood Health Frameworks

  • Improving public health through planning: case studies

  • Tackling polarisation and populism

  • Using the policy frameworks, tools and levers available: case studies

  • Air quality and noise management initiatives

  • Public transport improvement and integration

  • Delivering active travel infrastructure

  • Behaviour change initiatives and incentives

  • Road danger reduction

  • Connected and active communities

  • Transport equality and inclusion

  • Communication and engagement initiatives

  • Promoting evidence-based approaches through knowledge and skills transfer

  • Cross-sector collaboration: frameworks and funding

  • Improving the health viability of neighbourhoods

  • Traffic restraint and demand management

  • Land use, housing, social cohesion and transport

  • Collecting and analysing meaningful data: supporting the evidence base

  • Insights from community-based health initiatives

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There will also be Innovation Sessions for those with products, tools and services aimed at supporting the themes above.

Send us your presentation suggestions by 30 June 2026

​If you have a suggestion for a presentation, demonstration or a workshop, please email the details, in no more than 250 words, to Juliana O'Rourke

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Please include talk title, description, speaker details and email address.

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