Have your say on York’s health and wellbeing strategy

Residents across the city are being asked to comment on a draft joint health and wellbeing strategy for the city for the next five years.

York’s Health and Wellbeing Board is inviting people to comment on the draft joint health and wellbeing strategy to ensure that it reflects people’s views and suggestions and that it includes the principles and actions that are most important to improving health and wellbeing in the city for the next five years.

The draft strategy is focused around:health-and-life

  • Mental health and wellbeing – getting better at spotting the early signs of mental ill health and intervening early
  • Starting and growing well – support for the first 1001 days, especially in vulnerable communities
  • Living and working well – promote workplace health and remove barriers to employment
  • Ageing well – reduce loneliness and isolation for older people.

The aim of the strategy, which will run between 2017 and 2022, is to help every single resident of York enjoy the best possible health and wellbeing throughout the course of their life. This will be done by:

  • Promoting greater independence, choice and control
  • Building up community based support
  • Supporting self care and management
  • Greater use of early help though targeted/short term interventions
  • Imaginative use of new technology.

The draft strategy draws on extensive engagement with stakeholders and residents, which saw over 1,200 suggestions received about health and wellbeing in York earlier this year, and a variety of evidence including the city’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). The JSNA provided a comprehensive assessment of the health and wellbeing needs in the city.

Councillor Carol Runciman, Executive Member for Health and Adult Social Care and Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board said: “This strategy looks to set out the priorities and the focus for investment for the city’s health and wellbeing over the next five years.

“We want everyone in York to have their say on the draft strategy which looks to increase confidence and the resources to play their part in improving health and wellbeing for all our residents.”

To comment on the draft joint health and wellbeing strategy visit www.york.gov.uk/consultations. All views are welcome and the consultation closes on Sunday 22 January 2017.

New partnership aims to return more long-term empty homes into use in York and Selby

Work to bring empty, unused homes back into use is being carried out by a new partnership of City of York Council, Selby District Council and Hunters Property Group.

empty-homeDuring Empty Homes Week 2016 which runs from today (28 November) to 2 December, the partnership is encouraging local property owners to get free advice and information on bringing a home which has been empty for six months or more back into use.

This advice is not only being offered to property owners in York but also to owners in Selby because City of York Council is now supporting the District Council’s empty property strategy.

Hunters Property Group has also joined the initiative with the offer of free market advice and auction valuations for the owners of empty property across York and Selby. Owners wanting to understand the market for their property, whatever its condition, and how best to realise its value can call the estate agent’s auction office.

In the past 12 months City of York Council has helped bring 23 homes back into use in the city, by offering owners advice and information, and in some cases by taking enforcement action. According to Council Tax records[1], in October/November 2016 there were 122 long-term empty properties in the city, which represents 0.5 percent of York’s total housing stock of 86,000 homes. This figure is below the regional and national average.

Since the launch of York’s empty property strategy and action plan there has been a 67 percent reduction in the number of long-term empty homes in the city. There are currently 387 long-term empty properties in Selby District, representing around one percent of the total housing stock.

 

For information and advice on bringing an empty home back to use, please contact:

Controversial Clementhorpe houses now on sale

Houses concerted for am old maltings business have been placed on the market for sale.

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The project sees buildings in Lower Ebor Street, that were dis-used for most of the last 50 years, being brought back into use.

The project attracted some local opposition in 2013 with opponents claiming that the internal fittings were part of the City’s heritage.

Later legal action was threatened

The entrance is a three-storey open atrium housing the conserved industrial artefacts.

There is a mix of two and three bedroom homes with three storeys and many original features. All have lower ground floor utility rooms on the former barley-growing floor.

The homes are on sale from £320,000 with Hudson Moody, York

The Clementhorpe Maltings are a grade two listed building. The building was listed for the following reasons;

* It survives as a highly legible example of a small, urban late C19 maltings, both in external appearance and the retention of all the key components of the process, namely barley and malt storage, steep, growing floors, and kiln
* It retains rare machinery relating to the malting process, principally an early C20 H J H King kiln furnace, and a cistern steep, and also related machinery such as a dressing machine by Nalder and Nalder, and a double bucket elevator.