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TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority
T2 - A longitudinal analysis
AU - Brown, Heather
AU - Kirkham, Scott
AU - Albani, V
AU - Goffe, L
AU - Hollingsworth, Bruce
AU - von Hinke, S
AU - Lake, A
PY - 2021/7/31
Y1 - 2021/7/31
N2 - The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all food outlets in Newcastle 3 years pre-intervention 2012–2015, the intervention year 2016, and three years’ post-intervention 2016–2019. We employ a difference-in-difference approach comparing postcodes within the school fast food outlet exclusion zone to those outside the fast-food exclusion zones. In the short term (3 years), planning guidance to limit the number of new fast-food outlets in a school exclusion zone did not have a statistically significant impact on the food environment when compared with a control zone.
AB - The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all food outlets in Newcastle 3 years pre-intervention 2012–2015, the intervention year 2016, and three years’ post-intervention 2016–2019. We employ a difference-in-difference approach comparing postcodes within the school fast food outlet exclusion zone to those outside the fast-food exclusion zones. In the short term (3 years), planning guidance to limit the number of new fast-food outlets in a school exclusion zone did not have a statistically significant impact on the food environment when compared with a control zone.
KW - Planning guidance
KW - Evaluation
KW - Food environment
KW - Difference-in-difference
KW - UK
U2 - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102600
DO - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102600
M3 - Journal article
VL - 70
JO - Health and Place
JF - Health and Place
SN - 1353-8292
M1 - 102600
ER -