**GM's LAEP to Net Zero** project seeks to accelerate the deployment of regional local area energy plans (LAEPs) across the Greater Manchester Region. The LAEPs indicate a need to deliver cr£1.9bn of new investment above and beyond business-as-usual activities over the next 5yrs. This project will develop an integrated and replicable plan on how to deploy low carbon technologies at scale breaking down barriers and siloes across finance, customer engagement, supply chain, and the policy and regulatory environment. This project will consolidate the findings from initiatives and programs previously undertaken within GM and across the UK. We expect this integrated view to develop innovations in the following areas: \***Financial Innovation:** Commercial and contractual models for local power purchase agreements and CfDs that can be accessed by developers and owners of Low Carbon Technologies (LCTs); new financial models to support investment in LCTs \***Service Innovation:** new consumer propositions, services and tariffs that exploit these commercial structures and enable consumers to buy and operate LCTs \***Market Innovation:** technical, commercial and governance designs for a market platform to support interoperation and data capture across a range of LCTs, thus enabling OEMs, suppliers and other energy system innovators to bring new products to market \***Partnership models:** development of models that give assurance of long-term demand for LCTs that enable OEMs and installers of LCTs to develop skills and supply chains for their equipment This project is about identifying and targeting the remaining missing links between those existing projects and teams to generate a single, accessible whole systems, place-based framework for action that can be replicated across the UK.

The Greater Manchester Local Energy Market (GM LEM) project forms a key part of the city region's plans for decarbonisation, set out in the '5 Year Environment Plan for Greater Manchester' and complemented by the Greater Manchester's Smart Energy Plan, together these enable GM Mayor Andy Burnham's target for a zero carbon emissions city region by 2038 announced at the Mayor's Green Summit in March 2019\. Building on Phase 1, the Greater Manchester Local Energy Market (GM LEM) project is an ambitious integrated, whole system energy vision that addresses how energy is generated, traded, transported, supplied and used across the city region. Co-ordinated by the devolved Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) it brings together a diverse array of partners from the private, public and Third sectors including, commercial and legal advisors, service design consultants, financial and regulatory specialists and the energy, technology and systems resources of Hitachi-Europe, Bruntwood, Bristol Energy, WSP, DAIKIN, Northwards Housing and leading technology provider SME Upside Energy. The project vision combines two key themes; a place-based approach to geospatial energy system planning, harmonising the demands of the energy transition with traditional local authority-led approach to planning and enables us to understand current energy assets and networks and to plan how they may change over time; and the development of a unique new local energy market aggregation platform, integrating new smart technologies across heat, power and transport and linking into local distribution and national transmission platforms. A user-centred design methodology puts customers at the heart of our approach, incorporating commercial property clients, early adopter owner occupiers, social housing tenants and the public sector. A Service Design approach creates an understanding of customer needs and consumption patterns and develops new value sharing propositions. Recognising the daunting economic, environmental and societal challenges the energy transition presents, the project involves citizens, the public and private sector and seeks to protect the most vulnerable in society from the impact of rising energy bills or poor-quality homes. GM LEM builds on the previously funded 'Prospering from the Energy Revolution' stage 1 feasibility study to accelerate from current market conditions to a Peer-to-Peer trading scenario suitable for the challenges of the mid-2020s. A new local market will reduce carbon emissions and consumer bills, providing market confidence and leading to increased local investment with the accelerated deployment of renewable energy and storage assets.

The World Health Organization has recognised Greater Manchester as the UK's first age-friendly city-region. As our population ageing, we need to move faster to create and shape GM as a test bed and vibrant market place for innovators to develop and deploy their products and services to support residents in our communities and neighbourhoods. The International Longevity Centre has described GM as the UK's most advanced ecosystem to be able to exploit the "ageing in place" market (Advantage GM: Unlocking the longevity economy for Greater Manchester). Our Trailblazer will further develop our ecosystem by supporting the design and marketisation of products and services that respond to the multiple determinants of healthy ageing and reduce inequalities. Across GM we have many examples of innovations supporting citizens to age healthily, but they tend to focus on one aspect of older people's lives such as transport, or housing design, or culture and leisure. Our proposal will bring together the different organisations, industries and communities to positively influence people's health and wellbeing and to accelerate the sharing and dissemination of good practice. A new agency for age-friendly design offering advice will enable homes and neighbourhoods to meet the changing needs of older people. Our ecosystem will be optimised as a marketplace for adoption at scale of healthy ageing technology products and services that support social connections, promote physical activity, and improve people's quality of life. With appropriate information governance, we will use artificial intelligence and analytics to develop predictive techniques for identifying needs and targeting cohorts. An integrated platform for citizen engagement and co-ordination will ensure we deliver holistic, citizen-centred products and services and evaluate the impacts and outcomes that people experience.

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Our overarching research question is: How might prevention of risk factors causing Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) be considered and fully incorporated into urban planning and development in the UK? Context: Poor quality urban environments are important contributors to Non-Communicable Diseases such as lung and heart disease, diabetes and mental health problems. This is because they are associated with critical risk factors - including air pollution, noise, lack of physical activity, lack of green space, and obesity. Therefore, one way of preventing these future major chronic health problems is to go "upstream" and improve the urban environment so that it encourages healthy behaviours and reduces adverse risks. However, urban planning and development is a complex system of actors and processes operating over multiple layers of governance. . The driving force in urban planning and development are now the large private sector actors, particularly landowners, investors and developers. Narrow valuation mechanisms and short-term horizons are a central challenge as they do not factor in long-term health. Urban planning faces "super wicked" problems too - where "those who are in the best position to address the problem are not only those who caused it, but also those with the least immediate incentive to act". Researching these complex systems requires: consideration of whole and interconnected systems; clear visualisation and analysis; effective engagement and 'co-production' with a wide range of stakeholders, including public, private, third sector as well academia and the lay public. Applications: We aim to transform urban planning and development systems so that health and health inequalities are valued and integrated at each of the main roots of core decision-making. We will develop with urban development decision-makers at city, combined authority and national level interventions and methods for realigning the system for healthier public and private sector operations. The intervention has three components: evidence of health impact including economic valuation; opportunities for change; community-led creative arts media communicating health inequalities. We will identify the best leverage points for introducing the intervention. We anticipate a range of applications for the evidence and associated tools. They will provide measurable evidence of health impacts to be used in multiple ways including: local and national planning policy; local development management and planning permissions; cost-benefit analysis on infrastructure and other investment decision-making; and policy or legal mechanisms for re-aligning corporate governance towards long-term health outcomes. For example, we will seek to influence and introduce evidence on health impacts of urban planning into the Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment, which determines what land is to be developed. Beneficiaries: The beneficiaries of this kind of whole system approach include: a) decision-makers by improving the quality of what they offer (e.g. local government will benefit politically by evidencing societal benefit; progressive investors and developers gain commercially by differentiating their 'product'); b) in the medium to longer term, urban and rural populations should be positively affected by better urban environments (e.g. reduced air pollution, better quality green infrastructure, improved physical environment); and c) taxpayers and central government over the long term due to decreased health burden on the NHS and increased levels of productivity.