Social cohesion and good relations in planning

This means considering how all communities may be affected by a development and ensuring that proposals help to improve community cohesion, fostering social integration, reducing isolation and improving access to opportunities in the city. Provision of good quality shared social and community infrastructure is critical for social cohesion and contributes to the creation of lifetime neighbourhoods. These are places where diverse groups of people are able to live and work in a safe, healthy and inclusive environment, with good connectivity to the city centre, which is the economic and social hub for shared community activity.