Stephen Hewitt obituary

You cant be healthy on an unhealthy planet, said my husband, Stephen Hewitt, who has died of renal cancer, aged 56. He believed good town planning could improve health and address health inequalities.

Stephen qualified as a town planner at Manchester University in 1980, working in Manchester and Rochdale before moving to Bristol, and always employing his encyclopaedic and eclectic knowledge and his firm resolve to stand up for what he believed in. He encouraged his colleagues not merely to determine if plans were sound, but to actively campaign for towns and cities that are good places in which to grow up and grow old.