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New settlements or new communities? Planning for social sustainability A professional practice workshop for the Barnwood Trust 29 th June 2016
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Transcript of New Settlements or New Communities
New settlements or new communities? Planning for social sustainability
A professional practice workshop for the Barnwood Trust
29th June 2016
Social Life’s aim is to put people at the heart of
placemaking
We continue to build neighbourhoods that fail to thrive
as flourishing communities
Where are the people? Where are the people?
We do research and use ethnography
We advise organisations across sectors
We work in the UK and internationally
We use data
What we do
Explore the lessons from high-profile failures of new communities and
the experience of ‘new town blues’
Identify what makes new places become thriving communities
Show how these elements can be planned, designed and built alongside
the physical infrastructure
Present a model for assessing social sustainability
Identify what policy makers, developers and housing managers can do to
create communities that flourish.
Today’s workshop will
Social Sustainability: an introduction
200 years plus of large-scale planned new communities in the UK but still relatively little known about what makes places thrive and how to support the social life of places.
The first question: what is a community?
Source: Egan Review 2004
Physical boundaries to promote geographical identity
Strong social relationships, networks & bonds
Local myths & stories
Rituals and rhythms
Shared belief systems: garden cities, new towns, eco-towns
Visible leadership.
An alternative view
“… where these facilities were already in place when people began to arrive, the community came together and networks were formed
more easily” CLG New Towns Review
“ … most mixing across social groups takes place between children. It
is these contacts … that provide opportunities to meet and form relationships.” CIH/JRF 2005
“ … planning for hard infrastructure alone would never build a community … it would only be done by a matrix of formal and informal opportunities or supported activities.” Cambridgeshire PCT (2007)
Reviewing the evidence
What happens when you don’t build communities?
What is social sustainability?
“A process for creating sustainable, successful places
that promote wellbeing, by understanding what people need from the places they live and work.
Social sustainability combines design of the physical
realm with design of the social world – infrastructure to support social and cultural life, social amenities, systems for citizen engagement and space for people and places to
evolve.”
Source: Social Life (2012). Design for Social Sustainability: a framework for creating thriving communities.
Social sustainability framework
Voice and Influence
Space to Grow
Social and Cultural Life
Amenities and Social Infrastructure
Connection to local and
regional economy
Green building,
environmental innovation, incentives
for pro-environmental
behaviour
How to build the amenities and social infrastructure that work?
How to create belonging and identity from scratch?
How to boost neighbourliness and belonging?
How will new residents relate to neighbouring communities?
How to give a sense of control?
How to inspire people to take action to shape their neighbourhoods?
What does this mean for new developments?
Why is this important?
What’s in it for me?
Discuss in groups
Using the concept of social sustainability
Working with Grainger plc on their new Wellesley
development near Aldershot
Wellesley
Shaping the future of a south London site through
deliberative workshops
Working with the City of Malmö: using social
investment to support placemaking
Mapping community assets & identifying gaps:
Cheltenham & Tewksbury
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Winchcombe
Bishops Cleeve
Alderton
Coombe Hill
Gotherington
Highnam
Maisemore
Minsterworth
Norton
Shurdington
Toddington
Twigworth
Twyning
Woodmancote
Joint Core Strategy Proposals MapKey Diagram
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Cheltenham
Tewkesbury
The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Strategic Allocations& Urban Extensions
Key
Green Belt (revised)
Joint Core Strategy Area
Rural Service CentresService Villages
City and Town Areas
Safeguarded Area
Administrative Boundaries
Areas to be removed from Green Belt
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Development Exclusion Zone
Measuring social sustainability
We have developed a social sustainability framework
for The Berkeley Group
Social sustainability indicators
3 dimensions, with 13 indicators. made up of 35 questions in total, measuring dimensions of social sustainability.
Empire Square Imperial Wharf
Knowle Village The Hamptons
Thinking about developments early
below average above average
We have completed a social sustainability toolkit for
Sutton Council
Piloted in Beddington, on the edge of London & Surrey
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Monitoring the impact of the regeneration of the
Aylesbury Estate, Southwark
Applying social sustainability to a development in practice
How would you use the framework?
Discuss in groups
What have you taken from the morning session
What would you like to know more about?
What would you like to discuss this afternoon?
How has social sustainability been built into new
developments?
Post-war new towns, importance of early community
development workers & early provision
Amenities & social infrastructure
Sociologist appointed as “go-between” for early
residents and developers Hafen City, Hamburg
Amenities & social infrastructure
Sociologist appointed as “go-between” for early
residents and developers Hafen City, Hamburg
Amenities & social infrastructure
Community Concierge Royal Arsenal Woolwich
Voice & influence
Community Land Trust The Village, Caterham (Linden Homes)
Voice & influence
Watermead Parish Council
Voice & influence
Physical space that is adaptable in the future Moveable Feast, St Leonards on Sea
Space to grow
A temporary café that moved The Deptford Project (Cathedral Group)
Social & Cultural Life
Social & Cultural Life
Relationships with neighbours
The Hamptons wetlands fishery
Links with neighbours Southwater Neighbour Network
Social & Cultural Life
How do you react to these examples?
Are they replicable?
Do you know of any other examples that are helpful?
Discussion
How can we design, plan & action social sustainability?
Planning policy
“At the heart of the National Planning Policy Framework is
a presumption in favour of sustainable
development, which should be seen as a golden thread running through both plan-making and decision-taking.”
Local government strategies
Housing associations
Parish councils
Community groups
Transport planners
Health providers
Community activists
Schools
Parents
Residents
Cafés
Leisure centres
Housing developers
Architects
Landscape architects
Researchers
Consultants
Planners
Councillors
DCLG Minister for Housing
Police
What role do different stakeholders have at different points on the timeline?
PLANNING
DESIGN
CONSTRUCTION
OCCUPATION
LONG-TERM STEWARDSHIP
5 years plus ….
How can different professional perspectives contribute to social sustainability?
What is the role of funding, investment and resources?
What is the role of ambition and creativity?
What is your role?
What have you learnt about creating communities, not just homes?
