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The Quality of Life Foundation is working alongside the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town team, with a local partner, Rainbow Services, and Stantec (data analysis) and Commonplace (the website). For more information or for general enquiries please email - mail@qolf.org
Harlow and Gilston Garden Town
Harlow & Gilston Garden Town is the second largest growth initiative in the South-East, supporting the delivery of 24,000 homes with the confidence of £171 million infrastructure funding from central Government.
It represents the chance to support transformative and healthy growth, levelling up our local area with better infrastructure, high-quality homes, skilled jobs and new green links between a thriving Harlow Town Centre and beautiful countryside.
The Garden Town partnership brings together five local authorities to deliver this pioneering project, informed through engagement with local people.
Partners: East Herts District Council, Epping Forest District Council, Harlow District Council, Herts County Council, Essex County Council
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Quality of Life Foundation
We are a charity committed to creating greater accountability and encouraging more sustainable models of development by making health and wellbeing central to the way we create and care for our homes and neighbourhoods.
We do this through research, community engagement and services, such as Quality of Life Mapping, Strategy Review, Training and Resident Review.
There is currently too much short-term thinking in the housing sector and government at a local and national level, which has led to public apathy and distrust in developers and councils. We believe the solution is long-term thinking that prioritises people’s quality of life, by which we mean their physical, social and psychological wellbeing.
We want to create change in the way the housing industry acquires, plans, builds and manages new homes and communities to improve people’s quality of life.
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Stantec
Communities are fundamental. Whether around the corner or across the globe, they provide a foundation, a sense of place and of belonging. That's why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind.
We care about the communities we serve—because they're our communities too. We're designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating together at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Balancing these priorities results in projects that advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.
We are supporting Harlow & Gilston Garden Town to understand how we can quantify, analyse and guide improvements in social value across the community as it develops. Our work involves data collection, analysis, interpretation and analysis of social, economic, mobility and environmental data.
Rainbow Services
Rainbow Services works for beneficial change in the local community through imaginative projects that support, enable and develop people and organisations.
As part of the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Quality of Life Mapping Project, Rainbow Services role is to co-ordinate community liaison and manage partnerships with local groups, community leaders and individuals within the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town area.
We will use our extensive local knowledge and partnership network to ensure the Quality of Life team are able to consult with a wide range of local stakeholders, digitally and non-digitally, to ensure everyone’s voice is heard in order to identify and map both what residents value in their community, and what they feel is essential to their wellbeing.
Commonplace
Commonplace connects you to the people who create the places where you live, work and play. A platform to speak and be heard by developers, councils, and public bodies to initiate better decisions and places for all.