Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

reference to the different types of food growing spaces that can be provided to help create a healthy environment. less capital intensive ideas could be referred to our by referring the reader to the SPG on healthy placemaking.

Social Farms & Gardens are pleased to see Policy SP5 creating healthy and inclusive places and spaces mentions 'enabling opportunities for access to a healthy food environment'. It is certainly a step in the right direction. Perhaps the explanatory text could refer to what is meant by this. Certainly reference needs to be made to the SPG on healthy place making. With the lack of clarity, a developer may move onto to considering other ’methods’ of creating ‘a healthy and inclusive place’. The explanatory text needs to make further reference to the possibilities such a space could look like and what it might entail. There is much discussion in the text about health and wellbeing services but there are also much less, capital intensive, things that can be provided. How could to a healthy food environment contribute to the wider determinants of health? These should be suggested and discussed at pre application stage. Reference to health inequalities is welcomed – perhaps more emphasis on the potential of food growing spaces could be brought in here. The need for affordable housing as part of ‘allocated’ sites presents a further opportunity to achieve this.