Council housing building and health service provision
Housing Growth Borough wide housing • growth to meet a new emerging London Plan 10 year housing target of 21,822 (165%) Great West Corridor • Opportunity Area to deliver 7,500 new homes • West of Borough (Heathrow) Opportunity Area to deliver 13,000 new homes
Hounslow Pledge 2018 – 2022 5000 affordable homes The Council will secure at least 3,000 new council and housing association homes for rent. The Council will secure at least 2,000 new shared ownership housing association homes. We will maximise the provision of council and housing association owned homes for rent when developing council-owned land. Secure more council owned homes for rent by investing in the purchase of private sector properties bulk off plan. There are currently 389 Council homes with planning consent or started on site. A further 142 units currently have funding and will complete by 2022. The Council will seek additional funding from the GLA in September 2018 to increase the number of units delivered in the Council’s house building programme.
Council Housing This map represents the locations where the Council house building programme is taking place.
Health, Wellbeing and Development Public Health England ‘Some of the UK’s most pressing health challenges such as obesity, mental health issues, chronic diseases …. can all be influ enced by the quality of our built and natural environment; the considerate design of spaces and places and access to community and health services can help to promote good health and in some cases even prevent poor health’ Planning Approach (for range of provision, including health): Apply the Determinants of health and well-being and Health • Impact Assessment (HIA) to proposals in the Local Plan reviews and major Planning Applications. Work with Infrastructure providers such as CCG to update the • Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) on Infrastructure needed to support housing growth in the borough. • The IDP includes key health and wellbeing measures and infrastructure components which are needed to meet the growth objectives set out in the Local Plan. It contains the background to key issues and illustration of infrastructure type, timing and potential costs of infrastructure needed to support the growth. • Local Plan is currently subject to a review process, and the IDP is ‘living document’. Both provide opportunity for health Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Diagram providers/practitioners to engage in the processes. (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 1992)
Development Schemes Approved Applying Health and Well-being measures Housing Lampton Road Civic Centre ✓ mix of housing types and tenures. ✓ 160 affordable homes in Phase 1 ✓ Affordable and social housing. ✓ Up to 780 homes in Phase 2 ✓ High quality Housing designs Health ✓ Adaption to Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health ✓ Extension of Maswell Park Health Centre School ✓ New Hounslow Town Centre Primary school ✓ Expansion to Hounslow Heath Junior and Beavers Community Primary Green Spaces Hounslow High Street Quarter ✓ Access and Improvements to Lampton Park and play ✓ facilties. 527 new homes Active Travel and Connectivity ✓ 216 affordable homes ✓ Cycle Superhighway 9 ✓ Multiscreen cinema ✓ Improvements to accessibility to public transport networks, ✓ New town square All bus stops accessible Environmental ✓ new development in good air quality areas ✓ Require best practice methods to minimise noise and dust pollution
Planning for Health Infrastructure Extract of emerging Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2018 on Health facilities to support the housing growth in the Local Plan Review
Delivery of Health Infrastructure Identifying and delivering health & wellbeing services through the Local Plan supported by the delivery of community health infrastructure. In 2017 several strategic health projects were funded through development (CIL & s106) funding: • Feltham Centre for Health Refurbishment - £50,000 • Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health Refurbishment - £50,000 Thornbury Road Centre for Health Extension - £125,000 • Brentford Centre for Health Extension - £100,00 • We also support the delivery of non-primary health services such as mental health services in the borough. In 2017 development funding was allocated to: Cherry Tree House Brentford Expansion - £200,000 • Map of borough-wide Health Facilities
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