HLINks - Housing LIN’s weekly update at your fingertips!
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 24 September 2021.
This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.
For example, this week, we published our newest #InspirationalAchievement feature, a multi-generational community scheme in Shaw Heath, Stockport led and designed by PRP’s Manchester studio. We are also delighted to announce that GreenSquareAccord is the new sponsor of the Housing LIN’s peer-to-peer discussion forum webpage.
We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- The Workhome Project launches new website
- A new MMU/Pozzoni Architecture guide on how to address the changing needs and aspirations of an ageing society
- Useful information highlighting this week’s #NationalEyeHealthWeek
- And a free to download environmental assessment tool for Health and Care settings by University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies
And lastly, join us at next week’s #HAPPIHour when we take a practical look at intergenerational living with North West housing and care operator, Belong, Ready Generations, and Adrian Hill Architects about their award-winning project for Enfield Council/MTVH.
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If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk
Stay connected and, above all, with further lockdown arrangements delayed for the time being, remain safe.
Jeremy
NEW HOUSING LIN PRODUCTS
New Inspirational Achievement feature: Building a new multi-generational neighbourhood
Our latest Inspirational Achievement focuses on a multi-generational community scheme in Shaw Heath, Stockport led and designed by PRP’s Manchester studio. The plans to repurpose the former St Thomas’ Hospital buildings into a new, flagship multi-purpose and multi-generational town centre neighbourhood are part of Stockport Council’s vision for the area.
Find out more about how this £25 million development is specifically designed to create a multi-generational community, and learn more about the Academy of Living Well, a 70-bed intermediate care and dementia facility is also planned for the North-eastern end of the site.
GreenSquareAccord joins the Housing LIN’s family of sponsors
We are delighted to announce that GreenSquareAccord is the new sponsor of the Housing LIN’s peer-to-peer discussion forum webpage.
The peer-to-peer discussion forum allows Housing LIN members to share information, raise issues and ask questions that either enhance their sector learning and/or aid their professional and/or practice development.
And, in case you missed it, we have made the exciting decision to change our Twitter handle from @HousingLINews to @HLINComms to better reflect the scope of information we share.
CORONAVIRUS
Check out current and relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub.
You can also find out more about the recent launch of the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study, on COVID-19 and its impact on the retirement village and extra care housing sector.
What else caught our interest?
HOUSING, COMMUNITY, DISABILITY, AND AGEING
The Workhome Project launches new website
With the government’s proposal plan to give all employee the right to request flexible working, the Workhome Project’s new website is a timely development.
As a founding member of the Workhome Project, we are delighted to over 20 years of field research reflected on the new website!
What else caught our interest?
- Healthy Ageing Challenge – Designed for Ageing competition closes Wed 17 Nov 2021 11:00am. Apply now!
- Homeless Link reports: Homelessness Provision for the Future
- No Place Left Behind: The Commission into Prosperity and Community Placemaking
- Accelerating Innovation in Social Prescribing programme: register your interest by 3 Oct 2021
- A Home for All – Applications close 6th October for Clarion Housing Group’s revamped William Sutton Prize
- Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) engagement document
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY
How to address the changing needs and aspirations of an ageing society
A Design For Life: Urban practices for an age-friendly city is a guide, co-authored by Housing LIN sponsor, Pozzoni Architecture, for architects, planners, developers and policy-makers about their role in addressing the changing needs and aspirations of an ageing society.
What else caught our interest?
- Vaila Morrison RIBA blog: How to master ‘Inclusive Chic’ in your home
- Digital switchover readiness survey
- Healthy City Design 2021: Early bird deadline extended until Friday 1 October
- Reboot Homes England to regenerate & decarbonise ‘left behind’ communities – report
- Paul Carter: It’s time to finally hardness technology to enable independent living
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE, MENTAL HEALTH AND LEARNING DISABILITY
#NationalEyeHealthWeek: Sight Loss, Home and the Built Environment
Vision really matters. Sight is the sense people fear losing the most. For #NationalEyeHealthWeek, we would like to highlight our Sight Loss, Home and the Built Environment webpages, sponsored by architects, West Waddy Archadia, providing resources, reports and individual stories around this topic.
What else caught our interest?
HOUSING AND DEMENTIA
APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Report
Did you miss this recent APPG Inquiry report?
Watch and listen again to the launch of the new report on housing and dementia here and be inspired by Wendy Mitchell as she shares her personal story about living with dementia.
And did you miss our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia in April? The recording and presentations are now available.
Free to download environmental assessment tool for health and care setting
Developed by the University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies the new gardens tool explains the importance of outdoor spaces, some of the principles of dementia friendly design, and an overview of how to use the tool.
It also covers seven key areas that comprises a rationale of why it is relevant to people living with dementia and a series of questions to get you thinking about your outdoor spaces.
Wales
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
Scotland
For Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
Events
Sign up to our Autumn HAPPI Hour sessions
Have we got an exciting programme of HAPPI Hour live-streams to quench you thirst starting this month. Please note the change of the day of our sessions from Thursday to Tuesday!
- HAPPI Hour - A practical look at intergenerational living - 28/09/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Reimagining Care: Caring Times - 05/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - Passivhaus for Active Ageing - 12/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - Intergenerational living is the future – where are the opportunities? - 19/10/2021 2:30pm till 4:45pm
- HAPPI Hour - Tap into the TAPPI Inquiry report launch - 26/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - From Moving On to Moving In - 02/11/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
You may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
- Foundations - DFG Champions Roadshow 2021 -16/09/2021 till 28/09/2021
- HDRC Webinar - What does “build back better” mean for people living with dementia in extra care and retirement housing? - 21/09/2021 12:30pm till 2:30pm
- Appello’s Customer Update Webinar - 23/09/21 01:30pm
- Housing 21 Conference - Is housing responding to the diverse needs of older people? - 06/10/2021 10:00am till 4:00pm
- Healthy City Design 2021 - 11/10/2021 till 14/10/2021 - Early Bird concessions available until 1st October, with further discount offered to Housing LIN members.
- Knowledge exchange workshop - Creating inclusive communities: Social inclusion in housing with care and support for older people - 04/11/2021 10:00am till 12:15pm
IN NEXT WEEK'S HLINKS
Next week, to coincide with #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons, we'll be publishing a HLIN case study by Levitt Bernstein architects on the intergenerational housing scheme for Phoenix Community Housing.
You can also look out for MTVH's Director, Jon Foster's blog before we share a report on the Housing Design Awards and announcement of the HAPPI category winner.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.