Theme 4: Ensure a healthy standard of living for all

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Having control over one’s life is critical to an individual’s health and wellbeing. Having resources to live a healthy life is central to improving health, and poverty and low living standards are powerful determinants of ill health and health inequity.

The priorities below, together with the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, are suggested as a focus for the borough to ensure that all residents achieve a healthy standard of living:

a) Developing the borough’s Local Plan and making the borough a healthier place to live, work and be active

b) Regenerating the borough to provide connected and safe places

c) Tackling poverty, including child poverty

Having control over one’s life is critical to an individual’s health and wellbeing. Having resources to live a healthy life is central to improving health, and poverty and low living standards are powerful determinants of ill health and health inequity.

The priorities below, together with the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, are suggested as a focus for the borough to ensure that all residents achieve a healthy standard of living:

a) Developing the borough’s Local Plan and making the borough a healthier place to live, work and be active

b) Regenerating the borough to provide connected and safe places

c) Tackling poverty, including child poverty