Stewart, Jill ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3031-8082 (2025) Global Sustainable Development Goals: a case study of housing development and regeneration in a London Estate. In: International Federation of Environmental Health: "18th World Congress on Environmental Health" (WCEH), 27th April - 1st May, 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

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Abstract

Stonebridge Park, a housing estate in north-west London, was once acknowledged as one of the country’s most deprived geographical areas to live, with substandard conditions and community tensions contributing negatively as social determinants of health to poor health outcomes. By the early 1970s the estate had undergone ideologically driven redevelopment but despite good intentions, this had contributed to a poor built environment, occupied by an increasingly marginalised, excluded community. There were multiple challenges between the state and sections of the local community. Low outcome indicators in areas like health, educational attainment, employment and high crime levels proved hard to address despite ongoing policy interventions. The estate has however more recently undergone a major regeneration transformation which mirrors many global UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), most notably around SDG1 poverty; SDG3 good health and wellbeing; SDG 10 reducing inequalities. The earlier estate redevelopment was a top-down model with a focus on architecture and failed to engage the community who lived there. The recent regeneration took a completely new partnership approach, assessing strategic need, involving the community and co-creation of a new built environment with green spaces, access to local amenities and employment opportunities, with health and safety at the heart of its design and layout. This bottom-up, participatory approach has focused on marginalised groups affected by exclusion and inequalities. This paper uses lived experience, archived and contemporary evidence to explore housing and public health on this estate, with residents at the centre of the award-winning regeneration process with early indications of improved health.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	housing and health, Sustainable Development Goals, estate regeneration, social housing, housing inequalities
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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)
Related URLs:	https://dsi.hkzr.hr/2025/10/18th-world-c...
Last Modified:	07 May 2026 05:02
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/53346

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