Issue - meetings

To consider the Uttlesford Health & Wellbeing Strategy for 2019-22.

RESOLVED to endorse and support the Uttlesford Health & Wellbeing

Strategy, attached to this report, to be implemented with effect from 1st March

2019.

The Portfolio Holder for Communities and Partnerships summarised the report outlining Uttlesford’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-22, a refreshed version of the original Strategy, which had been produced in collaboration with the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). The primary change incorporated in the refreshed Strategy related to the “planning for healthy communities” objective which dovetailed with the emerging Local Plan and proposed Garden Communities. By updating the Strategy, the Communities Team could interact with planners and developers in order to shape the delivery plans of these developments, and ensure Uttlesford’s health and wellbeing priorities had been taken into account.

The Portfolio Holder for Finance and Administration welcomed the Strategy and said it was necessary to be aware of challenges such as those faced by elderly residents of his ward, where trip hazards and fuel poverty were a real concern.

In response to a Member question relating to the data from the 2011 census, the Senior Health Improvement Officer said public health data would be refreshed in cases where it could be, although the majority of data cited in the Strategy was as up-to-date as possible.

The Chairman thanked the Communities team for their work and said that the health and well-being of Uttlesford residents was centric to the Council’s agenda.

RESOLVED to endorse and support the Uttlesford Health & Wellbeing Strategy, attached to the report, to be implemented with effect from 1st March 2019.