It is our firm belief that to be successful and sustainable, development must respond effectively to three universal considerations. These are international challenges, and we are determined to address them as Master Developer of the built environment.
Understanding the importance of health and wellbeing to happiness, productivity, community and prosperity has become increasingly important in recent years. Through the design of new developments and a wellbeing-led commitment to all our stakeholders, people can be motivated to embrace active, healthy lifestyles and enabled to be sociable, community driven and content.
The theme of health and wellbeing touches on all activity we undertake as a Master Developer and understanding its importance to happiness, productivity, community and prosperity has grown in recent years.
Ultimately, where someone lives and works is the primary influence on whether they are able to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Embedding health and safety considerations into new developments from the beginning can be a directing factor in ensuring healthy, active, sociable communities.
It is a unique time for the consideration of health, wellbeing and social outcomes across the world. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a heightened divergence of healthcare outcomes in the UK, linked to deepening inequality between socio-economic demographics and groups. At the same time as isolation and distance have been caused by Covid-19, the direction of travel from the National Health Service (NHS) more generally has been to move away from prioritising hospital-based treatment towards community-based recuperation and prevention based approaches.
Developers are also in a unique position to support positive health outcomes. A careful and consultative construction and development process can play a role in creating healthy living. Both the UK’s National Planning Policy Framework and the associated Planning Practice Guidance encourage development proposals that deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places.
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We believe in embedding a culture of health and wellbeing in our communities from the beginning of our development projects. Our Toolkit is designed to align with the three tiers of our development approach, embedding health and wellbeing principles from the strategic planning stage all the way through to detailed design and monitoring and management of on-the-ground experiences of health and wellbeing. It is clear to us that this process and the prioritisation of a health and wellbeing culture overall foster a sense of place, pride, belonging and cohesion in our communities. To take on the health and wellbeing challenge, we will focus on:
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Our move towards health and wellbeing not only as an area of focus but as a holistic culture in our business means it is embedded throughout our action areas and associated metrics. Good health and wellbeing is one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Urban&Civic intends to promote the connectivity between these areas in our activities and reporting. We have developed a Health and Wellbeing Toolkit setting out a comprehensive range of opportunities to embed a health and wellbeing culture into our developments and sets the requirements for our internal teams, advisors and contractors to implement. Accordingly the Toolkit is an internal document and only shared with specific members of our supply chain. |
Understanding the importance of health and wellbeing to happiness, productivity, community and prosperity has become increasingly important in recent years. Through the design of new developments and a wellbeing-led commitment to all our stakeholders, people can be motivated to embrace active, healthy lifestyles and enabled to be sociable, community driven and content.
The theme of health and wellbeing touches on all activity we undertake as a Master Developer and understanding its importance to happiness, productivity, community and prosperity has grown in recent years.
Ultimately, where someone lives and works is the primary influence on whether they are able to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Embedding health and safety considerations into new developments from the beginning can be a directing factor in ensuring healthy, active, sociable communities.
It is a unique time for the consideration of health, wellbeing and social outcomes across the world. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a heightened divergence of healthcare outcomes in the UK, linked to deepening inequality between socio-economic demographics and groups. At the same time as isolation and distance have been caused by Covid-19, the direction of travel from the National Health Service (NHS) more generally has been to move away from prioritising hospital-based treatment towards community-based recuperation and prevention based approaches.
Developers are also in a unique position to support positive health outcomes. A careful and consultative construction and development process can play a role in creating healthy living. Both the UK’s National Planning Policy Framework and the associated Planning Practice Guidance encourage development proposals that deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places.
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We believe in embedding a culture of health and wellbeing in our communities from the beginning of our development projects. Our Toolkit is designed to align with the three tiers of our development approach, embedding health and wellbeing principles from the strategic planning stage all the way through to detailed design and monitoring and management of on-the-ground experiences of health and wellbeing. It is clear to us that this process and the prioritisation of a health and wellbeing culture overall foster a sense of place, pride, belonging and cohesion in our communities. To take on the health and wellbeing challenge, we will focus on:
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Our move towards health and wellbeing not only as an area of focus but as a holistic culture in our business means it is embedded throughout our action areas and associated metrics. Good health and wellbeing is one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Urban&Civic intends to promote the connectivity between these areas in our activities and reporting. We have developed a Health and Wellbeing Toolkit setting out a comprehensive range of opportunities to embed a health and wellbeing culture into our developments and sets the requirements for our internal teams, advisors and contractors to implement. Accordingly the Toolkit is an internal document and only shared with specific members of our supply chain. |
