To continue my devil's advocacy, you aim to: "help to reduce health inequalities by [...] requiring Health Impact Assessment on all development proposals on Strategic Sites and Locations." It seems to me that the issue isn't the threshold, but the improvement of health. To use the lingo, which determinants of health are particularly important to you ? Worklessness, pollution and unsafe behaviour could all be factored into a design but in different ways. If you are clear about the issue then developers can scope out whether their proposals need some extra thought / rigour / consultation. Or, to put it another way, the production of an HIA doesn't actually make anything happen. It's just some paper. How will you monitor whether your policy is working or not ? I hope it's OK to think out loud (and expose my ignorance) in this way. I'm just being mindful of the "bonfire of policy" that is round the corner - and every line will have to earn its keep.
