The Southeast Warrington Urban Extension is set to deliver more than 4,200 homes, of which more than 30% will be affordable housing. The development has social value and inclusive design at its heart and aims to create a sustainable community with strong links into the existing urban area and town centre.
RealWorth was commissioned to create a Social Value Strategy for the scheme, to ensure that the construction, design, and occupation stages of the development maximised its benefits for local people. The Strategy will form part of the development framework, to be used by developers, constructors and operators of the site.
To create the Strategy, we carried out:
- A policy review
- Engagement support which looked to develop a series of lived experience-focused questions to use in community engagement and consultation.
- Socio-economic review
- Development of place-based indicators
- Social Value Action Plan
RealWorth also worked with Meeting Place to develop a data collection strategy to capture social value over the next 12 months using the agreed place-based indicators and the OECD wellbeing factors to capture people’s lived experience.
WSP Associate Director“RealWorth have been an exceptional ally for the project and demonstrate excellent foresight and attributes for making places and people’s lives better”
