Prior + Partners’ recent work on the Hertfordshire Healthy and Safe Places Framework has been shortlisted in the Best Project category at this year’s East of England RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence.
Hertfordshire’s Healthy and Safe Places Framework is the UK’s first comprehensive approach to integrating health, safety, and inclusivity into local planning and place-making. Led by the Hertfordshire Growth Board, Prior + Partners worked with local government, Public Health, the Police and Crime Commissioner, NHS partners, the Voluntary Sector, and other key stakeholders to develop a unified, evidence-based approach to embedding health, wellbeing, and safety into spatial planning and development across the county.
The framework sets out seven Healthy and Safe Placemaking Principles, developed through a countywide officer group. These principles provide practical, consistent guidance for integrating health, safety, and inclusivity into planning policy and decision-making, with the aim of reducing health inequalities across Hertfordshire.
This shortlisting reflects our continued commitment to shaping healthier places through evidence gathering and its spatialisation, developing locally specific principles, and critically their successful application.
The winners will be announced on Wednesday 17 June 2026 at The Graduate, Cambridge. Find out more about the event and other nominations here.
