Main contact: Alice Sampson
Project team: Alice Sampson (Principal Investigator), Dr Patrick Tobi, Professor Adrian Renton, Yang Li, Allan Brimicombe, Professor Angela Harden, Dr Ilona Boniwell (Co-Investigators), Faye Adams-Eaton, Dr Marcello Bertotti, Shahana Lais, Jane Stokes, Hippolina Joseph, Kevin Sheridan
Start date: August 2009
End date:
Project funder: NHS Newham
Project Partners: UEL Centre for Institutional Studies; UEL Centre for Geo-Information Studies; UEL School of Pyschology
Background
Stratford City will be a new mixed tenured housing development in the East End of London post the 2012 Olympic Games. Key features of the development will include international and national rail links, sporting legacy buildings, mixed land use (e.g. retail, leisure and housing) and socially mixed residents, including young and single parent families and ethnic diversity. Stratford City project provides a unique opportunity for NHS Newham to work creatively with public, private and community organisations to put in place strategies, structures and working practices to address persistent health problems and to ensure the development creates a health promoting environment. They are keen for the development to be informed by reserch evidence. Research into the health and well-being effects of planned mixed communities and urban regeneration is currently lacking and what exists is fragmentary and has not yet been brought together in a systematic way.
Aims
This project aims to review existing evidence and build new evidence to inform strategic planning, needs assessment and operational design and delivery of services which will support the achievement of an Olympic health legacy for those living and working in the area.
Methods
Principles for best practice will be built from a) a review of reviews of evidence drawn from international and national studies of health improvement through regeneration and urban planning, b) a systematic review of studies on planned mixed communities and c) from primary research in selected new mixed communities to find out what lessons policy makers and practitioners, and their partners, have learned through their experience in designing health improvement into these communities and through designing and delivering health and other services for them.
Documents/references:
A final report will be available in May 2010.
For further information please contact: Angela Harden
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