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Message Delivering Healthy Living Hubs
Healthy Living Hubs Regen Partner are developing integrated healthy living hubs across the country, combining leisure and wellbeing centres, with our housing model (usually extra care, multi-generational living). We create places that prioritise active and inclusive environments which provide easy and safe opportunities for everyone to be physically active.The provision of good-quality, accessible and appropriate housing can help prevent people from being admitted to hospital, encourage swifter discharge and support people wanting to remain independent in their community. Those under social care are statistically the highest band likely to end up in hospital due to poorer demographics, underlying health issues and lack of access to leisure provision. Our aim is to address this through funding extra care housing alongside adult services to support and offset the delivery of leisure facilities.
When taking a place-based approach, Regen Partner will not only help clients and authorities to improve population health in terms of physical and mental wellbeing, but will also help in achieving multiple local objectives and priorities within the wider place-making agenda (see diagram).All this makes creating a high-quality living environment more than just a matter of addressing issues that adversely affect health.Addressing such multiple local priorities can also help to promote good health: the quality of the environment and the local socioeconomic context.Regen Partner - Creating Healthy Living Hubs‘Health outcomes are dependent on action in many policy areas.’
Supporting The Government’s New Towns InitiativeRegen Partner’s Healthy Living Hub concept, supports the wider government agenda around their New Towns Initiative.• We unlock the potential economic growth, including through encouraging greater labour mobility and job opportunities, and promoting growth where it is currently constrained by the cost or availability of housing.• We accelerate housing delivery through the provision of new homes that people need, with a mix of housing tenures that support diverse communities and include affordable homes and high-quality social housing.• We provide housing for strong communities with the necessary infrastructure, services, and amenities – ensuring residents have access to education, healthcare, transportation, cultural and sporting facilities, and green spaces.• We create environmentally resilient places that support the government’s net zero agenda through sustainable design, nature enhancement, low-carbon infrastructure, and responsible development, including flood risk mitigation.• We contribute to transforming the way that large settlements are delivered, including through longer-term planning and the approach to infrastructure provision and supporting the construction industry and related supply chains to expand and deliver more efficient outcomes.
Addressing PolicyHealth and care policy NHSRegen Partner are working closely with Integrated Care Boards (ICB’s), Hospital Trusts and NHS England around sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) to improve health and care in communities. The NHS vanguards programme has been testing the development of new care models and systems, such as bringing healthcare providers together under an accountable care organisation. Local authorities are responsible for the planning, design, commissioning and delivery of social care services, responding to a wide range of needs and developing local strategies. Social care involves both public money and private spending, but local authorities alone spend £14 billion per year. Many services require the use of land and buildings, and working with social care providers to understand their needs is a requirement of the NPPF. Sport England’s national sport strategy Towards an Active Nation, published in 2016, has been hailed as a significant policy shift, to a focus on tackling inactivity and increasing wellbeing through improving physical activity in active environments, not just from participation in formal sporting activities. It developed its ‘Active Design’ principles with PHE to encourage and promote sport and physical activity through the design and layout of the built environment and so support a step-change towards healthier and more active lifestyles.
Team Structure Verum VictumGT3 Architects Masterplanner, and sport, leisure & residential architectRegen PartnerEnabling partner Planning Consultant (tbc)Client Team Client Other delivery consultants to be confirmed Client Team Team Enabler Delivery Partners including planning, development management and construction Delivery Consultants Sub – Consultants Regen Partner are the key enabling entity on the project. They are the key point of contact and bring the project to life through the co-ordination and mobilisation of funding, design and delivery partners.Verum Victum are the funding entity and will take the risk on planning submission, delivery on site (tier 1 contractor), infrastructure and development management. They work side-by-side with Regen Partner. Other consultants such as transport, fire, M+E , structure and civils, and landscape architects are assembled and understand our model. GT3 Architects lead on the wider masterplanning, design delivery, project management and wider design team co-ordination.
Regen Partner Providing For Healthy Living Hubs • Our focus is supporting communities through enabling development and institutional finance• We are creating ‘healthy living hubs’ across the UK • We create developments which expand healthy living expectations in communities with wellness and sport at the centre our developments• We are unique in providing affordable extra care, independent living, across the UK, for those on social benefits, plus step-up, step down housing to release pressure on the NHS• Our model creates attractive land values, providing finance for wider capital project delivery• We protect assets where possible through long term lease arrangementsOur funds are private equity which means they take on the financial risk30 current projects underway delivering affordable later life livingWe work with charity groups to help provide access to sport within communities Fully ESG audited to ensure environmental & social governance
Regen Partner Enabling Development for Sport DeliveryWe are supporting 8 councils to deliver new leisure centres through the model16 projectsprovide capitalto cross finance large sport projects9 grass root sports clubs are being given a sustainable future through our modelWe work closely with GT3 Architects to create new leisure destinations • Regen Partner bring together a strong supply chain of institutional funding and delivery partners, to create community living• Through our enabling facility, we can provide grass root sports clubs, schools and local authorities, with a sustainable future • We can support NGBs to offset the reduction in grant funding through alternative finance methods / enabling• We are working with local authorities across the UK to create attractive capital receipts for the offsetting of sports and leisure delivery and other capital projects• Because our funds want to hold property for 40 years, the quality and standard of our developments are high
Affordable Extra Care, Multi-Generational Living Regen Partner focus on affordable extra care, independent living for those people over the age of 18, who are on social care benefits, paid for by the council. This can include adult mental health and dementia (onset and acute).We provide good quality one and two-bedroom living, with care support within the building through our care provider, helping to release tenants from larger properties that are in demand from larger families in the region. This reduces the social care burden on local authorities, by bringing developments under one roof, with various degrees of health care support at hand. At the same time, residents get access to a wealth of amenities, such as spa’s, café and restaurants, hairdressing salons, cinema rooms, community rooms, padel tennis, community gardens, etc.
Step Up – Step Down Housing Regen Partner provides high quality bespoke accommodation for people with disabilities. Their accommodation is designed to enhance a person’s life and allow people greater independence in their home.Communal living spaceNew build and conversions Fully funded at no risk to the council Designed to meet the Lifetime Home criteriaAssisted technology incorporated in the build designOne or two bed self-contained apartments On site care provider operationFull turnkey solution, including planning delivery
An evidence-based brief is the foundation for a project that delivers for the whole community.Over the last few years, Regen Partner and GT3 Architects have developed a strategic brief writing and engagement service, ran by a dedicated team of in-house consultants and specialists.Our strategic brief writing is centred around making healthy living hubs work and ensures the stakeholders aims and objectives are met, together with creating wider developments that meet demographic need.Our goal is to articulate and optimise the relationship between our client’s people, place and community. This ensures buy-in from early stages and proof of success at the end.It is based on a comprehensive and inclusive engagement process, which allows us to understand a community’s values, goals and present situation intimately, using clear graphic outputs to articulate our findings.Community and Engagement
A sustainable design approach is one that addresses environmental, economic and social issues with a view to conserving our natural resources, reducing pollution and protecting the planet. It is a long-term investment and requires an unequivocal commitment.Our people-centric methodology draws on the fundamentals of scale, grain, orientation and movement but equally on character, history and identity to create multi-layered, mixed-use masterplans that are truly sustainable.Regen Partner’s designs aim to improve the quality of the life of the users, visitors and neighbours, while ensuring the natural systems, resource and diversity on which they depend are preserved and enhanced for the benefit of future generations.Sustainability
Exemplar Case Studies
Coventry Rugby ClubClient: Coventry Rugby ClubLocation: Butts Road, CoventryTeam: Regen Partner, GT3 Architects, Hexa, Chord Fund: Patron Capital DescriptionWith a reduction in grant funding from theRFU, coupled with rising constructioninflation and low land costs, the club wereon the edge of folding. They had workedwith a developer for two years, to onlyachieve a £700k land offer fordevelopment, which in no way coveredtheir need for capital and revenue.Regen Partner engaged with the club inOctober 2023 and are now putting in forplanning on a high-quality development. Through the intervention of 90 units ofaffordable later living, a capital receipt of£13m is helping deliver a new 100 bed hotel(£700k per annum income), 105 units of keyworker accommodation, new diagnosticscentre and a new 3000 seat stand with hospitality provision. Consideration is alsobeing made toa new centre for womens netball on the site.
Blackburn Albion MillClient: Darwen Borough Council Location: BlackburnTeam: Verum Victum, Regen Partner, GT3 Architects, Hexa, Chord Fund: Confidential DescriptionThe Blackburn Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council (BwDBC or council) worked with the team to provide a residential intermediate care approach with ‘step up’ beds (to provide a short term intermediate level of residential care for people to prevent them from experiencing unplanned hospital or long term care admissions) and ‘step down’ beds (to provide a short term intermediate level of residential care for patients in hospital who require ongoing support and/or rehabilitation in order to continue their recovery so that they can return home). The project:• Manages demand on the sub-acute and acute services for older people. • Improves the prevention, discharge and after care pathway• Aligns Council residential intermediate care strategy to form a valuable asset in reducing admissions, duration of stay and facilitate discharge.
Gurnell Leisure CentreClient: Ealing Borough CouncilLocation: Ealing ParkTeam: Regen Partner GT3 Architects Mikhail Riches ArchitectsFund: Patron Capital DescriptionIn February 2023, Ealing Council’s Cabinet approved the principle of bringing forward a new leisure centre, incorporating a 50-metre swimming pool alongside a new fitness studio.The council-led plans would expand the range of fitness and wellbeing facilities and create a new swimming destination for the people of the borough. Under the new plan, the new £50m leisure centre would see the range of fitness and wellbeing facilities significantly expanded. This will ensure that it meets modern standards and is able to serve the local community for years to come. The revised proposals would also enhance open spaces around the new buildings and include mixed tenure housing, with a significant proportion (100 units), utilising the affordable later life living approach.The Later Living scheme is generating a land value of £15m (red book value is £4m) with the remaining 200 units of BTR generating a value of £8m.
Farnborough LeisureClient: Rushmoor Borough Council Location: Farnborough Town CentreTeam: Regen Partner GT3 Architects Hexa, Chord Fund: Midas Capital / Legacie DescriptionAs part of an ambitious regeneration masterplan in the centre of Farnborough Town Centre, the development includes proposals for:• A new leisure centre and cultural hub, including a library, community space and office space for the council and voluntary organisations• Up to 960 new energy-efficient homes• A new hotel• Space for shopping and commercial development• more than 1.93 hectares of green open space, including a high-quality central park• Two mobility hubsThe cost of the new leisure and cultural hub building is estimated at £58 million. As well as the £20 million of Levelling Up funding, Regen Partner are working the housing to help deliver the remaining £38 million of funding.
Leicester County CricketClient: Leicester County Cricket ClubLocation: Grace Road, LeicesterTeam: Regen Partner, GT3 Architects, Hexa, Chord Fund: Midas Capital DescriptionLeicestershire County Cricket Club has beenworking closely with GT3 Architects andRegen Partner for a £60m redevelopment ofUptonsteel County Ground which will transform the existing stadium and createnew facilities for the surrounding community.As part of the masterplan, we are introducing100 units of affordable later life living, plus ahealth hub and new stand and hospitalityworks. We are also looking at the launch of anAcademy of Cricket campus, that could host awide range of academic activities includingthe world’s first MBA in cricket management.The affordable later life living block, wegenerate just over £10m for the club, whichthis will be used to cross finance the deliveryof the new stand and hospitality area.
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