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Raising the bar for healthy development

The NHS has set a new standard for ‘healthy development’ and what this should look like in practice. Our experience supports these conclusions; we believe it is becoming increasingly important that new communities respond to our changing climate and social requirements.

Launched in 2015, the purpose of the NHS England’s Healthy New Towns Programme has been to create healthier and better connected communities. Ten large-scale residential developments across the UK were selected to deliver the programme and explore the ‘how-to’ of healthy placemaking.

The lessons learned from the Healthy New Towns Programme have now been published [1]. This NHS publication is designed to be a toolkit for stakeholders and recommends ten principles for healthy place-making.

We have identified the most important recommendations from the Healthy New Towns Programme report for the design and development stage, available in the below PDF. We have picked out nine recommendations for developers which will increase the quality of our new communities.

Turley Design and Economics are working on a number of strategic scale developments across the UK to devise and implement strategies to create a healthy community. Should you wish to learn more about our thoughts and work please contact a member of the team.

Visit our showcase page to find out more about our approach to new communities and see some of our projects.

21 October 2019

[1]  NHS, PHE, TCPA, The King’s Fund, The Young Foundation (2019) Putting Health into Place