Policy information sourced from the Ealing Development Strategy

6.2: Social Infrastructure

Social infrastructure includes affordable housing, education, children’s services, provision for older people and independent living, health care, employment, community safety, culture, leisure and community services (including libraries, community centres, places of worship, police, fire, ambulance facilities, and cemeteries) The following requirements have been identified to date.

  • Health – Development of health centres which provide a range of services in addition to primary health care across a localised system of health facilities
  • Education – Increase capacity at primary and high schools and provide new schools for the increase in population where capacity cannot be met. Deliver planned increases in capacity at existing schools. Plan for good bus and rail links for high schools that have a wide catchment area.
  • Children’s Services - Provide Children’s Centres within walking distance to every home as the central point for provision of children’s services. The services offered by each centre may differ but they should ideally co-locate with other services to provide ‘one-stop-shops’ for young people.
  • Culture, Sports and Leisure - Enhance buildings and spaces through developments that enable cultural activity to take place for the benefit of its community. Retain Ealing as the green heart of West London and improve access to open and built leisure uses e.g. through co-location with other services. The targets for housing and employment development provide an opportunity to modernise and improve facilities, but they also place pressure on the environment. Links between future leisure provision and the health/PCT agenda are vital in improving the health and well-being of the existing and new population.

The council’s own assets and land can be used to stimulate development and provide much of the land for local infrastructure. These assets can have added value if they also provide accommodation for other local service providers, e.g. health, sports and leisure facilities etc.

For more information please see the Ealing Development Strategy