NHS England is helping to plan 10 new developments where the design and facilities will support healthy lifestyles, to combat problems such as obesity.
NHS England has announced plans to create 10 NHS-supported 'Healthy New Towns' across England, involving more than 76,000 new homes with potential capacity for approximately 170,000 residents.
The NHS, supported by Public Health England, will help shape the way these new sites are developed, in an effort to build solutions to problems such as obesity, dementia and lack of community cohesion into housing developments right from the outset.
It remains to be seen whether food-related activities such as food-growing space, food markets, small-scale retail units, teaching and production kitchens in local community centres (to enable healthy eating programmes and healthy catering) and delivery points for veg box schemes will make it into the plans.
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Published Friday 4 March 2016
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