Bringing a healthy life to communities, bringing healthy communities to life Darlington Healthy New Town Hilary Hall Project Manager, HNT
• What is a Healthy New We will Town? cover: • What are the national aims? • What are we doing in Darlington? An Overview • Why we see asset based community development as important part of this approach? • Next steps
• 1 of 10 HNT sites announced March What Is 2016, 3 year national programme ‘Healthy • Drive closer collaboration between LAs and the NHS, planners and New housing developers and other partners to address the wider issues that Towns’ ? impact on the population’s health – a public health approach
The Healthy New Towns programme has three key aims: 1. To shape new towns, neighbourhoods and communities to promote health and wellbeing, prevent illness and keep people independent ; 2. To radically rethink delivery of health and care services, supporting learning about new models of deeply integrated care, place-based care; 3. To spread learning and good practice to other local areas and other national programmes.
Demonstrator Sites – the core of the programme 114 applications, 10 sites chosen Site Region Approx. Type Darlington, Fylde, number of new County Lancashire homes Durham Fylde North 1,400 Greenfield Darlington North 2,500 Mixed Barton, Halton Lea, Oxford Runcorn Halton North 800 Brownfield Bicester South 6,000 Greenfield Bicester, Whitehill & Bordon South 3,350 Brownfield Oxfordshire Northstowe, Cambridgeshire Cranbrook South 8,000 Greenfield Barking London 10,800 Brownfield Cranbrook, Ebbsfleet, Devon Northstowe East 10,000 Greenfield Kent Ebbsfleet South 15,000 Brownfield Whitehill Barton South 890 Greenfield Barking & Bordon, Riverside Hampshire 5
Is Is this is dif ifferent to the usu sual l NHS approaches?
Regeneration & Development Where is Opportunities in the Eastern Growth the Zone of Darlington focus? • Existing Red Hall estate – 600+ houses • The Stables (80 houses) • Lingfield Point (1250 houses and employment) • Burdon Hill (1200 houses) • Ingenium Park and Central Park (employment) • But part of overall growth plan for Darlington of extra 10,000 homes
DARLINGTON EASTERN GROWTH ZONE Red Hall Link 66 Logistics Central Park Town Centre Ingenium Park Advanced Engineering
This area was chosen due to its extreme Why the health inequalities: Eastern • significantly high levels of deprivation 76% of households experience at least Growth one kind of deprivation compared to only 32% in the Borough as a whole Zone? • higher levels of worklessness (only 27% of economically active adults in full time employment; significantly higher percentages of children and older people living in poverty and people living in means tested households)
• Placed within the most deprived 2.5% of neighbourhoods Impact on • 52.2% of pupils eligible for free school meals (15.6% nationally) the people • Poor health indicators in this • 16% struggling to meet their energy bills Community • Red Hall far exceeds the local, regional and national averages for the proportion of residents receiving almost every type of DWP benefit • Red Hall ranks in the top 2.7% most deprived neighbourhoods nationally for ‘the attainment of qualifications and associated measures of relative educational disadvantage’
Red Hall Health Profile
3 Workstreams: What are we doing in • Regeneration & Housing (Built Darlington? Environment) – new and existing? • New Models of Care • Digital Enablement
Digital Exchange
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Darlington’s Sustainable Communities Strategy: ‘One Darlington Perfectly Placed’
DARLINGTON HEALTHY NEW TOWN - DESIGN PRINCIPLES – LOCAL PLAN • Transport, access and movement must be planned with the following hierarchy: New developments must protect, enhance and create multi-functional green-blue 1. Walking infrastructure to support human and natural life contributing to combatting the urban 2. Cycling heat island effect, tackling air pollution, improving water quality and 3. Public transport reducing flood risk. In providing green infrastructure, which should constitute 4. Rail 40% of the developable area the following hierarchy must be observed: 5. Private cars, taxis and motorcycles. 1. Habitats and Ecology • Facilities for those on foot or cycle must be provided in new 2. Flood and Water Management, and Air Quality developments and supported in existing neighbourhoods such as 3. Access Recreation and Movement benches, cycle parking and adequate signage. 4. Play and Education • Connectivity and safe, well lit, routes between 5. Amenity and Landscaping neighbourhoods, local services and schools must be Local food provision and sports facilities are provided for new developments. to be allocated separately • New developments must provide • Healthcare, leisure, playing pitches, Healthy Food Choices Social Infrastructure adequate opportunity for local food local services and retail must be production either through the provision clustered together into nodes with of private gardens, communal spaces or adequate public transport connections in where there is a lack of provision local centres identified in the Local Plan identified. • Local services, social infrastructure and • The establishment of hot-food local facilities must be provided in the takeways will be controlled in areas of first phases of development to establish over-concentration and where close to a sense of community schools. • The public realm must be high quality, • The change of use of existing buildings benefit from natural surveillance and be to facilitate innovative approaches to means to connecting communities to local food production and distribution each other and to facilities. will be actively supported. • Developments above a threshold of 100 • Developments above a threshold of units must demonstrate that there are 100 units must demonstrate that there local services and access to community are local services and access to healthy facilities within 400-800 m (or 5-10 food choices within 400-800 m (or 5-10 minutes walk) or that these will be minutes walk). created. • New developments must ensure that there is • New developments must provide a legible access to good links to employment opportunities and and permeable environment that is easily that these are integrated into mixed-use areas wherever understood and has clear signage and wayfinding*. • possible. Existing neighbourhoods and the historic environment must • New employment sites must be well connected to the walking and be conserved to ensure that local landmarks and key buildings cycling network and the public transport system. and features can be used to orientate and be familiar*. • New developments must take the opportunity to employ local labour and • Public spaces, streets and greenspaces must benefit from natural provide training and skills through their construction. surveillance with a lack of clutter*. • Local and town centres should be supported to ensure that the local population • Car parking is to be accomodated in such a way so it does not interfere with can be served, with an emphasis on local centres providing for community needs. walking and cycling*. • Flexibility should be built-in to new local centres to allow change of use to • The density of development must support good access to shops and services commercial over time. within 400-800 (or 5-10 minutes walk)*. * Denotes measures that support a Dementia Friendly Environment
Can we apply the same What about principles? existing communities Can we retrofit ? What have we done at Red Hall? This is about people and place
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RED HALL MASTERPLAN
Consultation with Young and….
Older…..
Red Hall Red Hall Regeneration Masterplan Programme Red Hall Neighbourhood Renewal
RED HALL REGENERATION Before
After
Front to Backs
Out with the old
In with the new
Red Hall Red Hall Regeneration Masterplan Programme Red Hall Neighbourhood Renewal
Red Hall Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy Groundwork Trust - Community development project
Involvement is critical Lots of consultation- slowly moving towards empowerment
What is happening? • Skills training • Digital skills • Budgeting skills • Newsletter • Community pride-street champions • Energy Efficiency Project • Mutual Gain • Carnival and Spectacular • Improved facilities
Holi liday Hunger In Init itia iative
Makin ing it it Fun!
Gardening competition fresh food
Bik Bikeabil ilit ity Sc Scheme Sp Sports/Activ ivit ity Programme
Learnin ing, g, Skil ills ls & Emplo loyabil ilit ity
Communit ity Events
Frie iends of f Red Hall ll – Communit ity Leadership ip
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