Stewart, Jill ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3031-8082 (2025) Three phases of municipal housing transformation on a London estate: ideology and impact. In: 2025 RSA Annual Conference Navigating Regional Transformation, 6th - 9th May 2025, University of Porto, Portugal. (In Press)

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The complex links between housing, poverty and health are recognised yet do not always play out positively in creating sustainable places to live. Based on archival and contemporary literature research, this paper traces the history of three stages of municipal (social) housing transformation in one London estate – Stonebridge Park – reflecting on what can be learnt and applied in contemporary policy and practice. Questions around the state as housing provider and manager remain contested and ideological, despite evidence that decent housing in planned environments has been successfully provided in many places. In Stonebridge Park since the 1920s, substantial efforts were made to address inadequate housing conditions, including overcrowding, frequently related to poverty. However not all developments were successful in fully addressing housing and related social determinants of health. By the 1960s, a top down and extensive area redevelopment approach did not engage the local community in the pursuit of an ‘ideal’ living environment, presenting multiple and complex challenges over time. However, the most recent award-winning housing and environmental planning and regeneration of this estate sought to be sustainable, offering a new partnership approach to both housing and health to help shift the longer-term fortunes of this once highly deprived place. This paper highlights some key developments across a century with a changing and diverse population, the effects on health and behaviours and how progress is being made and evaluated, providing lessons for elsewhere, in particular, the need to reintegrate housing and health policy in new, evidence based, sustainable ways.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Housing, Housing and Health, Public Health, municipal housing, social housing, Stonebridge, London
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Inequalities Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
Last Modified:	10 Mar 2025 14:32
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49602

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