Health, wellbeing and regeneration in coastal resorts

Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA) – Healthy Communities Support

Healthy Communities Programme

The Healthy Communities Programme is funded by the Department of Health and managed by the IDeA. The programme aims to build the capacity of local authorities to:

  • tackle local health inequalities;
  • provide leadership to promote wellbeing;
  • work in partnership to improve health locally.

The programme provides a range of support to local authorities and their health partners. This includes:

  • the healthy communities peer review process;
  • a health, care and wellbeing leadership academy for elected members;
  • a wide variety of good practice examples from around the country via the Knowledge website (www.idea.gov.uk/health);
  • opportunities to build networks, collaborate on challenges and debate topical issues (www.communities.idea.gov.uk);

IDeA also undertakes specific activities on issues like the social determinants of health, partnership working for health and workforce health. Recent publications from the programme include Valuing Health: Developing a Business Case for Health (www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=15246382) and Leading Together Better (www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=15727555). Contact: Julia Sherfield (julia.sherfield@idea.gov.uk).

Case Studies

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    Health Impact Assessment, planning and regeneration

    In 2008, Canterbury City Council issued a draft Area Action Plan (AAP) that set out a number of preferred options for the regeneration of Herne Bay.27 AAPs are part of the Local Development Framework (LDF) which is, in turn, the spatial expression of a local authority’s Sustainable Community Strategy. LDFs set the framework for planning and development in a local authority for 15–20 years.
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    Providing primary health care to a coastal resort


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    Assessing hidden need: the caravan park population

    Caravan parks are popular along the British coastline, and a considerable proportion of people in parts of the UK reside in static caravans for much of the year. Residents in caravan parks can be a group hard to reach, and they may have an ambiguous legal status (caravans are often used as permanent homes irrespective of whether the caravan park has a license for long-term residential use). Residents of caravan parks are less likely to be registered with a GP and less likely to be represented on the Census.
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    The night-time economy


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    Blackpool

    Blackpool has more than 10 million visitors a year, seven miles of beaches, many tourist attractions, hotels and guest housess.39 The health profile of its 142,500 residents shows that their health is generally worse than the England average, with higher rates of violent crime, hospital stays for alcohol-related harm and drug misuse. There are inequalities in life expectancy by both deprivation and gender. And while there have been decreases in death rates from all causes and in early death rates from heart disease and stroke, and cancer, these rates remain well above the England average.40
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    Regional planning for a sustainable coast

    The South West of England has 62 per cent of the region’s 5.2 million population residing in the coastal area, and living within 10 kilometres of the sea.45 With a 700 mile coastline that includes more than 60 per cent of England’s heritage coast, it has good reason to concentrate on the sustainability and vitality of its coastal communities.
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