Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 24
8th Report – Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society
Published 22 May 2026
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
Health and Social Care Committee Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
Designing a built environment that promotes physical activity for everyone, including older people, must become a core requirement when designing public spaces. We recommend that the revised National Planning Policy Framework and the Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance embed Sport England’s active design principles. (Recommendation, Paragraph 80) 45
From: Health and Social Care Committee, 8th Report – Healthy Ageing: physical activity in an ageing society (HC 1180), 22 May 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 22 July 2026, 102 days ago.