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Building a Healthy New Town: Northstowe Innovation

Explore how Northstowe, a new planned community, prioritizes healthy living and aging population needs, integrating health and care services early on. Support our bid for funding to deliver sustainable accommodation, tackle obesity, and implement innovative health models to create a vibrant and inclusive neighborhood. Join the partnership of key stakeholders to shape the roadmap for a community that meets the diverse needs of all residents.

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Building a Healthy New Town: Northstowe Innovation

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  1. Northstowe Healthy New Town Housing LIN 4 May 2016 Iain Green, Senior Health Improvement Specialist, Cambridgeshire County Council

  2. Northstowe • 483 hectares on former Ministry of Defence land • 10,000 homes • One of the largest planned new communities in more than 50 years

  3. Northstowe Innovation • New community designed from scratch • Built environment to facilitate healthy living • Homes designed for an ageing population • Health and community facilities provided early • Health provision geared toward treating people in the community

  4. The NHS Healthy New Town Programme • In the NHS Five Year Forward View, a clear commitment was made to dramatically improve population health, and integrate health and care services, as new places are built and take shape. • Funding • Support

  5. Our Bid • Accommodation for Older People • development of sustainable mixed accommodation schemes for older people across a spectrum of housing, health and social care needs • Tackling obesity • mixed/inclusive/walkable neighbourhoods with good connections and excellent access to facilities and open space.

  6. Delivering a Healthy New Town • Appreciate what older people want in new housing and deliver homes suitable for an ageing population • Consider the needs of specialist housing for other groups (vulnerable/individual with mental health issues etc) • Implement innovative models for health and care provision; treating more people within their community • Integrate the right new digital health technologies in the fabric of the town • Push beyond planning requirements to achieve an excellent built environment that encourages healthy activity • Meet the needs of all, including excellent provision for young people to ensure a sustainable community

  7. Our Bid

  8. Who are we? – the partnership • Sheffield Hallam University • John Laing and Nichol Thomas (Architecture and Master Planning Consultants) • Sustrans • Spice Innovations Limited (who develop Time Credit systems) • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) Joint lead partner) • South Cambridgeshire District Council (Joint lead partner) • The Homes and Communities Agency (Joint lead partner) • Cambridgeshire County Council • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group

  9. What next – the roadmap • Recruitment of project support • Stocktake of current position • Engagement workshops with: • key stakeholders • Wider community

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