Healthy New Towns

This week it was announced that Halton had been chosen as one of ten national “healthy new town” sites. The area around Halton Lea, some 800 residential units, will be used to develop and test creative solutions for the health and care challenges of the 21^st century – obesity, dementia and community cohesion. The Healthy New Towns work is about reimagining how healthcare can be delivered by joining up the design of the built environment with modern health care services, and harnessing new models of technology-enabled primary care. The Healthy New Towns work fits like a glove on to our Well North initiative and our other actions with partners in the borough under the One Halton banner to promote health and wellbeing, social cohesion and community resilience. The expression of interest that we summited as a collective last summer was one of 114 applications from local authorities, NHS organisations and housing developers – so the competition was fierce.  So, well done to all involved in this application, together we will make this a success and the start of a wider movement for renewal and improved care.

Simon Banks