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Bringing a healthy life to communities, bringing healthy communities to life

Darlington Healthy New Town

Hilary Hall Project Manager, HNT

We will cover:

• What is a Healthy New

Town?

• 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

What Is ‘Healthy New Towns’ ?

• 1 of 10 HNT sites announced March

2016, 3 year national programme

• Drive closer collaboration between

LAs and the NHS, planners and housing developers and other partners to address the wider issues that impact on the population’s health – a public health approach

• 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.

The Healthy New Towns programme has three key aims:

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Demonstrator Sites – the core of the programme

Site Region Approx. number of new homes Type Fylde North 1,400 Greenfield Darlington North 2,500 Mixed Halton North 800 Brownfield Bicester South 6,000 Greenfield Whitehill & Bordon South 3,350 Brownfield Cranbrook South 8,000 Greenfield Barking London 10,800 Brownfield Northstowe East 10,000 Greenfield Ebbsfleet South 15,000 Brownfield Barton South 890 Greenfield

Cranbrook, Devon Bicester, Oxfordshire Barking Riverside Barton, Oxford Darlington, County Durham Ebbsfleet, Kent Fylde, Lancashire Halton Lea, Runcorn Northstowe, Cambridgeshire Whitehill & Bordon, Hampshire

114 applications, 10 sites chosen

Is Is this is dif ifferent to the usu sual l NHS approaches?

Where is the focus?

Regeneration & Development Opportunities in the Eastern Growth Zone of Darlington

• 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 Central Park Town Centre Ingenium Park Advanced Engineering Red Hall Link 66 Logistics

Why the Eastern Growth Zone?

This area was chosen due to its extreme health inequalities:

• significantly high levels of deprivation

76% of households experience at least

• ne kind of deprivation compared to
• nly 32% in the Borough as a whole
• higher levels of worklessness (only

27% of economically active adults in full time employment; significantly higher percentages of children and

• lder people living in poverty and

people living in means tested households)

Impact on the people in this Community

• Placed within the most deprived

2.5% of neighbourhoods

• 52.2% of pupils eligible for free

school meals (15.6% nationally)

• Poor health indicators
• 16% struggling to meet their energy

bills

• 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

What are we doing in Darlington?

3 Workstreams:

• Regeneration & Housing (Built

Environment) – new and existing?

• New Models of Care
• Digital Enablement

Digital Exchange

Red Hall Masterplan Red Hall Neighbourhood Renewal Red Hall Regeneration Programme

Darlington’s Sustainable Communities Strategy: ‘One Darlington Perfectly Placed’

Healthy Food Choices Social Infrastructure

New developments must protect, enhance and create multi-functional green-blue infrastructure to support human and natural life contributing to combatting the urban heat island effect, tackling air pollution, improving water quality and reducing flood risk. In providing green infrastructure, which should constitute 40% of the developable area the following hierarchy must be observed:

• 1. Habitats and Ecology
• 2. Flood and Water Management, and Air Quality
• 3. Access Recreation and Movement
• 4. Play and Education
• 5. Amenity and Landscaping

Local food provision and sports facilities are to be allocated separately

• New developments must provide

adequate opportunity for local food production either through the provision

• f private gardens, communal spaces or

where there is a lack of provision identified.

• The establishment of hot-food

takeways will be controlled in areas of

• ver-concentration and where close to

schools.

• The change of use of existing buildings

to facilitate innovative approaches to local food production and distribution will be actively supported.

• Developments above a threshold of

100 units must demonstrate that there are local services and access to healthy food choices within 400-800 m (or 5-10 minutes walk).

DARLINGTON HEALTHY NEW TOWN - DESIGN PRINCIPLES – LOCAL PLAN

• Healthcare, leisure, playing pitches,

local services and retail must be clustered together into nodes with adequate public transport connections in local centres identified in the Local Plan

• Local services, social infrastructure and

local facilities must be provided in the first phases of development to establish a sense of community

• The public realm must be high quality,

benefit from natural surveillance and be means to connecting communities to each other and to facilities.

• Developments above a threshold of 100

units must demonstrate that there are local services and access to community facilities within 400-800 m (or 5-10 minutes walk) or that these will be created.

• New developments must provide a legible

and permeable environment that is easily understood and has clear signage and wayfinding*.

• Existing neighbourhoods and the historic environment must

be conserved to ensure that local landmarks and key buildings and features can be used to orientate and be familiar*.

• Public spaces, streets and greenspaces must benefit from natural

surveillance with a lack of clutter*.

• Car parking is to be accomodated in such a way so it does not interfere with

walking and cycling*.

• The density of development must support good access to shops and services

within 400-800 (or 5-10 minutes walk)*.

• New developments must ensure that there is

access to good links to employment opportunities and that these are integrated into mixed-use areas wherever possible.

• New employment sites must be well connected to the walking and

cycling network and the public transport system.

• New developments must take the opportunity to employ local labour and

provide training and skills through their construction.

• Local and town centres should be supported to ensure that the local population

can be served, with an emphasis on local centres providing for community needs.

• Flexibility should be built-in to new local centres to allow change of use to

commercial over time. * Denotes measures that support a Dementia Friendly Environment

• Transport, access and movement must be planned with the following hierarchy:
• 1. Walking
• 2. Cycling
• 3. Public transport
• 4. Rail
• 5. Private cars, taxis and motorcycles.
• Facilities for those on foot or cycle must be provided in new

developments and supported in existing neighbourhoods such as benches, cycle parking and adequate signage.

• Connectivity and safe, well lit, routes between

neighbourhoods, local services and schools must be provided for new developments.

What about existing communities

Can we apply the same principles? Can we retrofit ? What have we done at Red Hall? This is about people and place

Red Hall Masterplan Red Hall Neighbourhood Renewal Red Hall Regeneration Programme

RED HALL MASTERPLAN

Consultation with Young and….

Older…..

Red Hall Masterplan Red Hall Neighbourhood Renewal Red Hall Regeneration Programme

RED HALL REGENERATION Before

After

Front to Backs

Out with the old

In with the new

Red Hall Masterplan Red Hall Neighbourhood Renewal Red Hall Regeneration Programme

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

School l In Involv lvement as Key Asset

• Bikeability scheme and Bike maintenance
• Aspirational Talks
• Involved in designing benches on the Red Hall loop
• Litter pickers
• Holiday Hunger
• Gardening Competition
• Youth consultation with YMCA
• Conduit to parents – information
• Great Places - involvement in heritage and culture
• Hosting visitors – involving the youth

Youth Work

What do people le say?

People want to come and live here now. There is so much going on” Claire Turnbull Housing Officer People want to come and live here now. There is so much going on” People want to come and live here

• now. There is so much going on”

Claire Turnbull Housing Officer “I want to make a difference. That is why I have joined the Friends of Red Hall” Resident “We have been welcomed into the

• community. We are a community. There

is always someone who can help” New Residents to Red Hall “Since moving to Red Hall my quality

• f life has improved 100%.This is

more than a community, its friends” A new resident

We’re on a journey…….

2015

• Start of regeneration work
• Development of Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy

2016-17

• Healthy New Towns status awarded
• Community development phases 1 and 2 complete

2017-20

• Community Leadership structures in place
• Devolved responsibility

Where are we aim imin ing for?

Current position

• Apathy is a key issue-reluctance to engage
• High levels of deprivation
• Entrenched child poverty
• Poor health
• Poor educational attainment
• Under used Community Centre
• Only two active community groups
• No sense of direction
• Stakeholders working in isolation

Desired position

• A place people want to live
• Community are joint architects in future development

planning

• Take responsibility
• Benefit from new communities
• Integration with new communities
• Healthier life styles
• A resilient and sustainable community

Community engagement Critical success factors

 Senior political and organisational alignment  Active political and local care organisation commitment  Bespoke planning and engagement process based on local needs  Measurable community focused objectives  Careful planning and preparation  Adequate resourcing  High involvement from the beginning  Widespread information sharing  New skills developed and supported in communities  Building a critical mass of key influence support  Concerns directly addressed  Learning from previous change initiatives  Early demonstrable wins

Influencing Darlington’s Neighbourhood Renewal Str trategy - Framework for Wellbeing

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National

• utputs and

guidance for NHS and beyond

1) New Care Models

Contracting & Service Planning Digital tech Estates

2) Built Environment

Planning Process Housing Design Public Realm & Environment Active Travel

3) Community Engagement

Behaviour Change Healthy Lifestyles Community Participation Evaluation – Process and planning for outcome measures Demonstrator sites National policy Evidence Sector engagement

Healthy New Towns – Programme structure

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING h.hall@silverdalems.co.uk 07916 258908

http://www.darlington.gov.uk/health-and-socialcare/healthy-new-towns/ @healthynewtowns