Providing 885 new homes and community services, the Barton Park development is an extension to Barton, a neighbourhood of around 1,500 homes three miles from Oxford city centre. An important goal for Barton Park, one of the NHS Healthy New Towns demonstrator sites, was to integrate the new and existing communities through the provision of shared social infrastructure and amenities. The population of the Barton and nearby Sandhills wards faces significant health inequalities resulting from high deprivation. The project aims to provide equal opportunities to all Barton residents to achieve good physical and mental health outcomes.
This project is featured as one of our healthy urban development case studies and this case is adapted from the full version in Healthy Urbanism.(1)
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