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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?

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Home Street Civic Space Park Workplace Leisure School Retail Countryside

Look at environments collectively

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Home Street Civic Space Park Workplace

Leisure

School Retail Countryside

Neighbourhoods

27.1m 19.4m 7.9m 7.5m 6.8m 4.7m 2.0m

Walking (leisure and travel) Fitness activities Other activities Cycling (leisure and travel) Running Swimming Football

Why are environments important to us?

Built Environment Connectivity Natural Environment

Walkability Public Transport Access Connected Streets Active Travel Infrastructure Good Public Transport Links Road Safety measures Tree Lined Streets Low Pollution Variety and Scale of Open Space Quality & lack of vandalism

The Environmental conditions that generate physical activity

High Densities Co Location Mixed Land Use

What Do We know?

Creating a lifelong sporting habit

Opportunities

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Active Travel Housing, New Communities, Town Centres

Planning Application / Development

Government Agencies & Quangos (Sport England) Planning Officials Developers Highways / Transportation Public Health / NHS Environmental Services / Environment Agency Police / Emergency Services Parish Councils

Statutory and Non Statutory Consultees Community Groups / General Public Technical Standards & Guidance National Member / Representative Bodies (TCPA / RTPI)

An Abundance of National Guidance and Insight

Acti ctive Des Desig ign

2015 Sport England, Public Health England

Bu Build ilding for

• r Lif

Life 12 12

2015 Design Council, Design for Homes, Home Builders Federation

He Heal althy New Towns

2019 National Health Service

Sp Spatial Pl Planning for

• r He

Health

2017 Public Health England

Ph Physical l Acti ctivity an and the En Environment

2019 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Sh Shap aping He Heal althy Pl Plac aces

2019 Local Government Association, District Councils’ Network

Pl Planning He Healthy-Weig ight En Environments

2014 Town and Country Planning Association, Public Health England

He Healt lthy Pl Placemaking

2018 Design Council

Manual for

• r Str

Streets

2010 Department for Transport

Cr Creating He Healthy Pl Places

2019 The King’s Fund

Pl Planning 2020 2020 (T (The Ra Raynsford Review)

2018 Town and Country Planning Association

Nati tional Des Desig ign Gu Guid ide

2019 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

The Implementation Gap

Evidence Base & Tools

The challenge

“The Implementation Gap”

Generate Buy in Building Capacity Collaborate & Innovate

“Stronger Communities, Better Places to Live, Healthier, Happier residents”

Making it Local

Utilise local insight and evidence Identify locally relevant themes Develop key principles Highlight good and bad practice

Leicester & Leicestershire: Healthy and Active Planning

Strategic Planning Board Planning Officers Forum (POF) Active Environment Group

The Active Environments & Local Partnerships

Potential Areas of Interest:

Generating Buy In

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Building Capacity & Capability

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Collaborate & Innovate

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Questions ?

Active Design in a local context Active Norfolk

Simon Hamilton Strategic Director, Active Norfolk

Scope

• Stakeholder mapping
• National and local insight
• Engagement principles
• Strategic Outcomes Planning

Guidance

Stakeholder Mapping

Health Landscape and Boundaries Council District Boundaries

How to make sense of the stakeholders in the built environment?

Stakeholder Mapping

Planners Developers Landscape Architects Architects Urban Designers Neighbourhoods and Community Groups Transport Planners Environmental bodies Housing Associations

Influencing Stakeholder Policies

Area Action Plans

Neighbourhood Plans

Local Industrial Strategy

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
• f ‘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?

High Density Mixed Use

• Encourage

more cycling and walking Accessible Parks

• Informal and formal physical

activity

• Mix of amenities encourage

activity and improve safety Co- Location of formal sports facilities

• Linked into green

grid & creation of seamless journeys Green Grid

• Proximity to

homes to provide access to green space for activity

• Underpins Active

Travel Urban Fringe

• Linked into green

grid

• Informal physical

activity

(Image courtesy of AJ – Barton Wilmore)

Active Design – In In Practice

Engagement principles

Developer

• Land promoter/ Agents
• Volume Housebuilder
• Architect
• Designer – Urban and Landscape
• Planner
• Consultants
• Developer as Local Authority

subsidiary company – social housing

Housing Associations

• Regeneration projects - Thetford
• New builds

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

Service and programme interventions Active environment Active travel Partnership working Enhancements to existing New provision KPI measurement

Interventions

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

GP Practices

Key Principle 3:

an asset based approach

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
• f 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

Community Activation

Delivery

Local stakeholders working together to design and deliver the programme in their

• rganisations

Health and wellbeing are being promoted in businesses, schools, and voluntary sector Targeting the population to change behaviour at ‘Trigger Events’: retirement / moving house / starting school / nursery

Healthy Eating

Activities to increase parents’ skills and confidence with food

• Healthy eating in schools

programme – includes social eating for early years children

• Hands-on healthy snack stands

at events

• Supporting the HENRY

parenting programme to run through Churches

• Cookery sessions with the Food

Bank and TESCO

Social isolation

▪ Intergenerational be-friending ▪ Encourage people to come together over food

• Supporting the collaboration

between Forget Me Nots and Little Acorns group

• Support for Bicester’s Big Lunch

and launch of the Little Lunch projects

▪ Articles and pull out listings in the Garth Gazette ▪ Healthy Bicester Facebook Page ▪ CDC Wellbeing Map ▪ Funding secured for social prescribing scheme ▪ Local events

Getting connected

• Websites and social

media

• Talking to people face

to face.

• Providing information

where people are and where it can be easily found.

Health care remodelling

• New ways of delivering

services to promote health and wellbeing: e.g. social media and social prescribing

• Development of sustainable

and enhanced primary care fit to meet the needs of the growing population

• Testing new ways of delivering

care e.g. diabetes management

Diabetes education evenings

• GPs/Leisure/District Council

/Community Health/Voluntary sector

• 56 Patient attendees
• 11 joined GO Active
• 2 joined Achieve
• 2 signed up as patient

volunteer drivers

• 1 joined a Bicester Health Walk

Secondary prevention Improving management of long term conditions

“An inspirational

• evening. You could feel

the infectious enthusiasm empowering patients to take control

• f their health.”

“I didn’t know all

• f these were available

and there are activities I can join just down the road from where I live.”

Potential Impact of Active Environments

Elmsbrook residents data:

• On average residents say hello to >15

neighbours (nationally 25% don’t speak to any neighbour)

• 81% feel healthy compared to 57.8%

nationally

• On average residents exercise 4.5

days/week

• 50% of residents use green spaces

every week

Any Questions?

Role of Active Partnerships

• An enabling partner in all three workstreams: built environment,

community activation and new models of care

• Source of key data and insight regarding local activity levels and

barriers/opportunities to increasing them

• Capacity building in local communities to enable community

activation

• Source of evidence of good practice, at strategic and operational

level e.g. planning discussions

• Champion for addressing health inequalities

– needed all the more post Covid-19

Creating a lifelong sporting habit

Going Forward . . .The local Solution ?

Inform

– Create, collate and disseminate learning and evidence that designing PA in to infrastructure has health, economic, social benefit – Public Health /NHS / TCPA / Sport England / Design Council

Innovate

– Create innovative solutions to nudge / drive market change – Challenge convention

Influence

– Clear messaging around why there is a need. – Collaborative Leadership (Policy – Practice – Behaviour - Relationships)

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Creating a lifelong sporting habit

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Delivering Active Environments

Structure Common Purpose Area of Influence