Integrated HIAEIA of the M1 Widening Scheme in South Yorkshire

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Integrated HIA/EIA of the M1 Widening Scheme in
South Yorkshire

• Natalie Pugh
• HIA Coordinator
• Rotherham PCT
• 01709 302745

Natalie.pugh_at_rotherhampct.nhs.uk
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Innovation permanent 4 lanes (P4L)
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Gantries for active traffic management
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Risks to the Scheme

• Safety Case
• Air Quality
• Local Authority Objections
• Public Enquiry (2008)

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EIA of Road Widening

• Statutory requirement
• 3 Staged Process
• Health is not a statutory consultee

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The Steering Group

• First met June 2005 (Sheffield and Rotherham)
• Combination of PCT, LA, HPA, Community groups
• Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley Doncaster (South
  Yorkshire)

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Integration

• Aim of the HIA process is to
• Support healthy decision making
• Build partnerships
• Provide solutions/ mitigation measures
• Enhance where possible
• Department for Transport formal agreement to
  integrate.
• Full integration?

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Parallel Integration

• Pros
• Seen as independent by the public
• Local involvement (ownership of the process)
• Keep the process local

• Cons
• Funding
• Influence
• Dependent on some EIA timescales

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Health Concerns

• The literature identifies the following areas to
  be health impacts linked with transport
• Air quality
• Noise
• Physical Activity
• Climate Change
• Psychosocial
• Main concerns for SY
• Air Quality
• Blight on communities

Pan- European Program http//webapps01.un.org/dsd/
partnerships/public/partnerships/204.html
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Future of the HIA

• Make a model for health impacts
• Using profiling data and evidence based
  literature
• Clean Air for Europe (CAFÉ)
• Policy Appraisal
• Local, regional and national
• Community Involvement
• Recommendations

http//europa.eu.int/comm/environment/air/cafe/gen
eral/keydocs.htm
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Learning by Doing

• Earlier inclusion into the process
• Working with an iterative process
• Real world of HIA