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Building Healthy and Inclusive New Places to live: Embedding wellbeing

Where people live is a major determinant of their physical and mental wellbeing. This event looks at proposals to deliver healthy housing in developments supported by the WMCA and how they can be taken forward within the current planning regime.

The main focus of this event is a discussion on issues of planning, performance, affordability and viability in new housing developments.

To start the discussion, there will be updates on the West Midlands Combined Authority Inclusive Growth agenda, the SHAP research into healthy homes performance standards, the West Midlands Combined Authority Design Charter and ERDF calls in the 2014-2020 programme.

This event is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

This event is relevant for:

Local Authority Planning, Housing, Highways, Public Health and Economic Development teams working with new build housing developers
Social Housing providers developing new build housing or taking receipt of new housing

A second related event is being run on 22 May 2019 for housing developers and their agents

PROGRAMME

9.30 – 10.00

Registration and Refreshments

10.00

Welcome and introduction

Alan Yates, SHAP Chairman

10.10

The context – WMCA role in in housing delivery & the ingrained focus on Inclusive Growth and improving wellbeing

WMCA

Gareth Bradford/Henry Kippin

10.20

Overview of work to date & enabling opportunities (Wellbeing principles & Design code/Single commissioning framework)

D Harkins, Director of Public Health, Dudley

Chair WMCA Housing and Wellbeing workstream

10.35

Q&A

Facilitator tbc

11.00

REFRESHMENTS

11.20

Local Authority and Social Housing Provider reflections

- Looking to the future, how can we best work together to deliver development that incorporate principles & best enhance resident wellbeing

- Is there 1 action you can do individually or as a group within your organisation to develop the added value of WMCA level working?

Facilitated table groups

12.00

Report back:

top 3 strategic enablers for delivery of healthy and inclusive new places to live.

implementation opportunities on specific sites over short, medium and longer term.

ALL

12.20

Summing up and next steps

Deborah Harkins

12.30 – 1.00

LUNCH and depart

Local Authority Planning, Housing, Highways, Public Health and Economic Development teams working with new build housing developers

Social Housing providers developing new build housing or taking receipt of new housing

BUILDING HEALTHY AND INCLUSIVE NEW PLACES TO LIVE: EMBEDDING WELLBEING