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West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Page 1 of 118 West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Paul Iggulden Roland Stout West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Page 2 of 118 An overview of the Strategic Assessment report This Strategic Assessment report is in three parts. Part I introduces the report. It provides the background and outlines our approach to undertaking this Assessment. Part II serves as an Executive Summary and Recommendations. It summarises the characteristics of West Howe. A discussion section follows, describing in more detail the challenges faced by West Howe. The key priorities for West Howe are then detailed and a collection of ideas for projects and initiatives to move West Howe forward is included. Part II concludes with a suggested approach for the West Howe Regeneration Partnership to guide development and implementation of its action plan. Part III documents the detailed evidence we have gathered during the Strategic Assessment. The underlying determinants of deprivation in West Howe are considered and analysis of the issues faced in West Howe presented. A great many people have kindly made themselves available for interviews and provided data to support the Strategic Assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your help and assistance. In particular we thank West Howe Community Enterprises for the images of West Howe. Table of contents: 1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................4 Part II - Executive summary and recommendations 2. Summary of characteristics of West Howe ...........................................................................7 3. Further challenges .............................................................................................................15 4. Priorities.............................................................................................................................18 5. Moving forward - our recommendations for progressing the West Howe Regeneration Partnership ...............................................................................................................................29 Part III - Detailed evidence 6. West Howe - demographics ...............................................................................................35 7. West Howe Assets .............................................................................................................43 8. Overall deprivation in West Howe ......................................................................................49 9. Drivers of Social Cohesion and Community Resilience in West Howe ...............................55 10. Employment, income and benefits - a two sided coin ..........................................................62 11. Health, wellbeing and social care........................................................................................77 12. Education and skills. ...........................................................................................................86 13. Crime and anti-social behaviour..........................................................................................97 14. Housing.............................................................................................................................106 Appendix 1: Commentary on root causes and priorities .......................................................... 116 West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Page 3 of 118 Part I - Introduction Part I - Introduction West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Page 4 of 118 Part I - Introduction 1. Introduction Background The Bournemouth 2026 Partnership identified West Howe as one of two priority neighbourhoods in Bournemouth; the other being Boscombe. It was agreed (by the Bournemouth 2026 Trust Board) that a Strategic Assessment of each of its priorities should be undertaken to provide the intelligence for actions by the partnership. The Strategic Assessment will be used as the evidence based intelligence on which to prepare a 3 year action plan for West Howe which will be incorporated into the Bournemouth Vision 2026 Sustainable Community Strategy 2012-2016 to be published by the end of 2012. The West Howe Regeneration Partnership will be responsible for preparing this action plan subject to approval by the Shadow Partnership Board. The strategic assessment will be refined as the partnership establishes outcomes and identifies areas requiring further research. The overall remit for the Strategic Assessment was to identify the reasons for the high levels of deprivation and unemployment and provide conclusions and recommendations about the key issues for the partnership to tackle. The Strategic Assessment will describe the characteristics of the West Howe area focusing particularly on four Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA): Turbary Common, Wallisdown (307), West Howe (309), Poole Lane South (312) and Heathlands (313). The national Census is a key source of data at LSOA level. The latest Census data available is for the 2001 Census; 2011 Census data is anticipated later in 2012. Where possible we have used more up to date non census data. Some data however is only available for larger populations: Middle Layer Super Output Area (Turbary Common (005) - the four LSOAs are four of the five LSOAs that make up MSOA Turbary Common (005)) and electoral ward level (West Howe is approximately half of the population of the South Kinson ward). The Strategic Assessment will help the West Howe Regeneration Partnership to move forward and develop a robust plan for improving the wellbeing of West Howe residents. Whilst the Assessment addresses the key challenges facing West Howe, it also identifies further information needed and suggests further areas of enquiry. We thank all of those who have given their time to support the assessment, those residents and service providers who gave up time for interview sessions and workshops and walked us around, and those who kindly provided data and pointers to sources of information. The assessment draws on both quantitative and qualitative evidence; the latter giving a voice to representatives of the community to begin to express their needs and aspirations. West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Page 5 of 118 Part I - Introduction We have been encouraged to produce a report ‘about the community, for the community’ and as such have sought to find a balance in writing the report which we hope makes this both informative and interesting to read. Our approach to the Strategic Assessment The brief for this Assessment places great store in the value of routinely collected data and service performance data. We very much share the desire to make use of routinely available information to inform decision making. We were very pleased that our proposal to use qualitative research techniques (interviews and focus group) to complement the data view was well received by the interview panel. Indeed, in many cases the ‘story behind the data’ will be found through combining analysis of data with insights from qualitative research. We have undertaken a thorough review of data relating to the West Howe area; our initial analyses have been combined with insights from interviews to generate ideas and areas for further investigation. In many areas, we have returned to data sources to request further data and have used this iterative approach to deepen our understanding. Initial findings have been shared with the West Howe Regeneration Partnership and we thank all those who participated in a very constructive workshop to review findings and consider how challenges might be addressed. This participative approach is we believe in keeping with a progressive approach to engaging communities in regeneration agendas. The findings section seeks to bring together the analysis of both quantitative data and insights from the qualitative elements of the Assessment. For most of the findings there is a clear ‘pathway’ back to the supporting evidence chapters detailing the findings of our data analysis. In some cases, findings from the qualitative work have provided important insights and clues to solutions. West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Page 6 of 118 Part II – Executive Summary & Recommendations Part II – Executive Summary & Recommendations West Howe Strategic Assessment May 2012 Page 7 of 118 Part II – Executive Summary & Recommendations Part II of the report (Executive Summary and Recommendations) provides a summary of the findings of our analysis before a discussion section on the overarching themes emerging from the Strategic Assessment. Five high level priorities are presented before introducing recommendations for future work. 2. Summary of characteristics of West Howe In this section we provide a summary of the findings from our analysis of routine data; the summary mirrors the structure of Part III of the report in which the detailed evidence of findings is provided. Demographics West Howe occupies the far western end of Bournemouth Borough. To the North is Kinson, to the east is East Howe and Ensbury Park, to the west is Bearwood, and to the south is Wallisdown. The West Howe estate was built in the 1950’s on heathland, part of the original area was a travellers site. It was Bournemouth’s first large scale local authority housing estate. There is no defined centre for shopping and services on the estate other than Cunningham Crescent where these are limited in number. West Howe area has, overall,