Blogs & examples of practice

On this page you will find a selection of guest blogs published by the Housing LIN.

Please also share any examples of local HNT practice that you think will make a useful contribution to these pages.

Planning for 21st Century HAPPI New Towns

In this blog, Kevin McGeough, Head of Strategy and Placemaking at Ebbsfleet, talks about the evolution of 21st century New Towns, drawing from the UK’s proud legacy of planned communities that improved health and productivity.

Darlington’s Healthy New Town Design Principles – Embedding Quality into the Local Plan and New Developments

These Design Principles were intended to be scalable and provide a framework for the creation of successful places that support health and wellbeing and contribute to an attractive and functional place that will continue to attract growth and investment.

Seizing the 'New Town' opportunity

The development of new towns presents a unique opportunity to plan and build communities which enable older people to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. In this blog, we explore the opportunities arising at Northstowe, a new town of 10,000 homes in South Cambridgeshire.

Green spaces, blue spaces: garden cities re-thought?

Making the case for Garden Cities, University of Greenwich's Jill Stewart reflects on Ebenezer Howard's vision on how people should live - by combining the benefits of the city, the countryside and the people.

A sense of place: what's health got to do with it?

In April 2016, Barking Riverside successfully bid to be designated an NHS England's Healthy New Town as part of a programme which aims to promote wellbeing and independence through cutting edge approaches to built environment design and new models of care.