What do we mean by Active Environments? Creating the Places and Spaces for people to be more active The benefits of green space on individual mental health and wellbeing are well documented. It is less well understood that aspects of where we live and the physical environment around us can both encourage and discourage people to be more active
What environments? Workplace Countryside Civic Space Park Street Home Leisure School Retail 2
Look at environments collectively Workplace Countryside Civic Space Park Street Home Leisure School Retail Neighbourhoods 3
Why are environments important to us? 27.1m 19.4m 7.9m 7.5m 6.8m 4.7m 2.0m Walking Fitness Other Cycling Running Swimming Football (leisure and activities activities (leisure and travel) travel)
The Environmental conditions that generate physical activity Built Connectivity Connected Environment Streets High Densities Active Travel Public Co Location Infrastructure Transport Access Mixed Land Use Good Public Transport Links Walkability Tree Lined Road Safety Quality & Streets measures lack of Low vandalism Pollution Variety and Scale of Open Space Natural Environment
What Do We know?
Opportunities Active Travel Housing, New Communities, Town Centres 10 Creating a lifelong sporting habit
Government Agencies & Statutory and Non Statutory Community Groups / Quangos (Sport England) Consultees General Public Planning Parish Councils Officials Planning Police / Application / Emergency Developers Services Development Environmental Services / Highways / Environment Transportation Agency Public Health / Technical Standards & National Member / NHS Guidance Representative Bodies (TCPA / RTPI)
An Abundance of National Guidance and Insight Bu Build ilding for or Lif Life 12 12 Spatial Pl Sp Planning for or He Health Acti ctive Des Desig ign 2015 2017 2015 He Heal althy New Towns Sport England, Design Council, Public Health England 2019 Public Health England Design for Homes, National Health Service Home Builders Federation Manual for or Str Streets 2010 Sh Shap aping He Heal althy Pl Plac aces Department for Transport 2019 Local Government Association, District Councils’ Network Pl Planning He Healthy-Weig ight Environments En Planning 2020 Pl 2020 2014 (T (The Ra Raynsford Review) Town and Country Planning Association, 2018 Public Health England Town and Country Planning Association Cr Creating He Healthy Pl Places Healt He lthy Pl Placemaking Ph Physical l Acti ctivity an and Nati tional Des Desig ign Gu Guid ide 2019 2018 the En Environment 2019 The King’s Fund Design Council Ministry of Housing, 2019 Communities & Local National Institute for Government Health and Care Excellence
The Implementation Gap
The challenge “Stronger Communities, Evidence Base “The Implementation Gap” Better Places to Live, & Tools Healthier, Happier residents” Generate Building Buy in Capacity Collaborate & Innovate
Making it Local Utilise local insight Strategic Planning Board and evidence Highlight good and bad practice Planning Officers Forum (POF) Identify locally relevant themes Leicester & Leicestershire: Active Healthy and Develop key Environment Active Planning principles Group
The Active Environments & Local Partnerships Potential Areas of Interest: Generating Buy In Building Capacity & Capability Collaborate & Innovate • ? • ? • ?
Questions ?
Active Design in a local context Active Norfolk Simon Hamilton Strategic Director, Active Norfolk
• Stakeholder mapping • National and local insight • Engagement principles Scope • Strategic Outcomes Planning Guidance
Health Landscape and Boundaries Council District Boundaries Stakeholder Mapping
Stakeholder Mapping How to make sense of the stakeholders in the built environment? Developers Planners Urban Designers Architects Landscape Architects Neighbourhoods and Community Groups Housing Associations Transport Planners Environmental bodies
Influencing Stakeholder Policies Local Industrial Strategy Area Action Plans Neighbourhood Plans
Forums to engage the planning network Norfolk Planning in Health Protocol
National In Insight and Resources
In Insight • How familiar are the built environment stakeholders with health inequality intelligence? • How are Health and Wellbeing priorities integrated into local planning authorities activity? • Do Local Plans and Masterplanning support increased physical and mental health improvement ?
How Active Design integrates with Norfolk’s population needs? • Examples from Norfolk: • 15% population increase over next 20 years • 96% increase in over 85s • 82,000 homes scheduled to be built (pre-COVID-19) • Strategic growth hotspots – focus where health inequalities are greatest • Active Partnership’s in good position to define impact of ‘do nothing’ on health inequalities
Engagement principles • Factfinding missions: • Level of understanding & importance of Active Design, Healthy Placemaking in local policies and priorities? • Local participation in national programmes? • Healthy new towns • Garden Towns and Villages Programme • Planning Development Control • Supplementary Planning Documents such as Design Guides with bespoke Active Design considerations?
Active Design – In In Practice Green Grid - Proximity to High Density homes to provide Mixed Use access to green - Encourage space for activity more cycling - Underpins Active and walking Travel Co- Location of formal sports facilities - Linked into green grid & creation of Urban Fringe seamless journeys - Linked into green grid - Informal physical activity Accessible Parks - Informal and formal physical activity - Mix of amenities encourage activity and improve safety (Image courtesy of AJ – Barton Wilmore)
Engagement principles Developer Housing Associations • Land promoter/ Agents • Regeneration projects - Thetford • Volume Housebuilder • New builds • Architect • Designer – Urban and Landscape • Planner • Consultants • Developer as Local Authority subsidiary company – social housing
What does good lo look lik like lo locally? Goldsmith Street, Norwich Eaton Park, Norwich 2019 RIBA Stirling Prize: awarded to the UK’s best new building
Greater Norw rwich Strategic Outcomes Planning
Greater Norw rwich Strategic Outcomes Planning Interventions Service and programme interventions Active environment Active travel Partnership working Enhancements to existing New provision KPI measurement
Questions?
Learning from Healthy Bicester Rosie Rowe, Oxfordshire Healthy Place Shaping Lead
Bicester
Healthy place shaping: Our Ambitions Healthy place shaping is a collaborative approach which aims to create: Sustainable, well designed, thriving communities Where healthy behaviours are the norm Which provide a sense of belonging, identity and community
Through testing healthy place shaping in Bicester we know there are three core strands to developing Healthy Communities
Principle 1: a place based approach The scope of the programme covers the whole of Bicester, with the NW eco town providing an example of how the built environment can promote healthy living 1 NW Bicester 6000 1 Elmsbrook 393 (90 homes complete) 2 Graven Hill 1900 SW Bicester Phase 1 1742(600 homes complete) 3 SW Bicester Phase 2 726 12 SE Bicester 1500 Rest of Bicester 30,845
Key Principle 2: A whole systems approach
Key Principle 3 : an asset based approach GP Practices
Key Principle 4 : Partnership in Action Co-producing and co-delivering the programme
Built Environment: Using the planning system to create active environments Stronger policy framework to support health promoting environments both at the strategic and detailed levels Commenting on major applications in Bicester to ensure new development encourages healthy living
Planning for future needs Planning flexible community facilities that reflect future models of care • Provision of social infrastructure is key to developing cohesive communities • Access to multipurpose facilities and co-location of services make vibrant communities • Design of lifetime neighbourhoods that enable social interaction between generations • Access to informal play spaces and natural space that supports bio diversity as much as formal sports facilities
Built Environment: Creating an enabling environment Built environment acting as a nudge to be more active: • 3x 5K Health routes • Increase use of green spaces Wayfinding scheme to support walking and cycling
Community Activation: To use an active environment Encouraging active travel: • ‘Dr Bike’ sessions every month • Bikeability training • Promotion of social cycle rides
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