Wellbeing Design Criteria

1. Nature first design

This refers to the need to preserve the natural landscape, to restore natural habitats to create natural capital and to contribute actively to complement existing green infrastructure. Land use planning must prioritise nature to counteract the decline of biodiversity.

2. Productive green spaces

This refers to understanding the different opportunities for including nature within the development: roofs, walls, balconies and pavements as well as public and private spaces, always focusing on the multiple benefits of productive landscapes.

3. Food growing spaces

This refers to introducing food growing into public and private areas, onsite food growing, community orchards and allotments.

4. Closing the food loop

This refers to how place-makers can introduce facilities to enable people not only to grow food, but also to compost, to reduce food waste and to improve onsite soil health.

5. Things to do together

This refers to the opportunities developments might offer to support activities that bring the community together, and how place-makers can ensure they make provision for safe, welcoming and productive green spaces that anchor wellbeing and reduce social isolation.

6. Places to eat together

This refers to the opportunities developments might offer to provide infrastructure for outdoor communal cooking, baking and social eating, focusing on place as a key trigger of community cohesion and social integration.