Green space: movement, mood, and longer lives. Shaping Places to deliver the 3-30-300 Rule.

The 3-30-300 Rule offers a simple benchmark for healthier, greener neighbourhoods, linking trees, canopy cover and access to green space with better wellbeing. Saluura helps translate these principles into practical, place-based decisions that support health, longevity and wellbeing.

A simple benchmark for wellness placeshaping, the 3-30-300 Rule proposes that everyone should be able to:

• See at least 3 trees from their home, workplace or school

• Live in neighbourhoods with at least 30% tree canopy cover

• Be within 300 metres of a high-quality green space

Studies associate greener neighbourhoods with lower stress, improved cognitive performance, better mental health and reduced urban heat impacts. 

These are exactly the types of health challenges and wellness opportunities that Saluura was designed to address.

Unlike building-focused certifications, Saluura evaluates the whole place, assessing streets, public realm, green infrastructure, biodiversity, transport, community facilities and the wider neighbourhood people experience every day. It combines site assessment, spatial analysis and an 800-metre walkable catchment appraisal to identify where interventions can enhance wellness outcomes. 

Saluura helps developers, investors, landowners and public authorities design, shape places that provide sufficient access to nature, canopy cover, and biodiversity.

As the wellness economy approaches $10 trillion, the most commercially successful places will be those that are shaped to support longevity, health and wellbeing. 

The future of wellness is place-based.