Abstract: In July 2011, the government of New South Wales announced ‘the biggest overhaul of the State’s planning system in over 30 years' (O'Farrell 2013). What ensued was a comprehensive review process that culminated in October 2013 with the tabling in parliament of draft legislation outlining the state's new planning system. Elements of the NSW Planning Bill have been controversial, and as such the legislation remains in draft form and subject to considerable debate. Yet the Bill has one striking and novel characteristic that has quietly avoided scrutiny. In a first for land-use planning in Australia, it proposes ‘health’ as an objective of the new planning act. This paper reports the findings of a collaborative research project investigating how health issues were included in the 2011-2013 review of the NSW land-use planning system. Policy theory suggests that effective problem definition increases the probability of an issue progressing onto the policy agenda. We use a descriptive content analysis of submissions made to the review to explore how health, and issues known to impact health, were framed in submissions as problems for urban planning. We focus specifically on health-related agencies and a group of other randomly selected stakeholders. We found that only health agency submissions included health in any detail. ‘Economic’ issues and 'infrastructure' - particularly transport and open space - were areas where submissions overlapped. As a systematic case study, this paper provides novel insights as to how a review of planning legislation was influenced to consider health as a primary planning issue, and how health might be connected to other substantive issues in planning legislation and systems.