Policy information sourced from the Southwark Local Plan 2022
SP5 Thriving Neighbourhoods and Tackling Health Inequalities
We will maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of our residents, encouraging healthy lives by tackling the causes of ill health and inequalities. This will be achieved by:
- Ensuring all council homes are warm, dry and safe; and
- Building quality new homes to help people to live healthier lives; and
- Working with residents and our partners to build resilient communities; and
- Extending opportunities to all to maintain and improve their health and wellbeing; and
- Enabling people to remain in their homes for longer and ensuring vulnerable residents can lead and enjoy independent lives, achieve their goals and have a great future in Southwark; and
- Delivering a safer walking and cycling network to address the climate emergency; and
- Increasing, protecting and improving green spaces; and
- Improving access to healthcare, voluntary organisations and community health facilities; and
- Introducing the concept of active design which, among other things, makes using the stairs an attractive alternative to using lifts and encourages walking and the use of bicycles for local trips; and
- Reducing health inequalities by improving the economic wellbeing, physical and mental health of our communities including providing healthy food options, improving air quality, improving green spaces and creating healthy streets and low traffic neighbourhoods to enable our residents to get to everywhere they need to go without using a car.
For more information please see the Southwark Local Plan 2022