Thread by @TCPAHealth

Next, Andy Lindop @BhamCityCouncil talks about the 'Healthy Living Zones' they are creating, with 15 minute living at the heart of the idea...

Why Healthy Living Zones? It gets away from using a particular number of minutes and focuses on living locally...

.@BhamCityCouncil council developing toolkit setting out roughly what facilities each zone should include...

Will then cross-reference with #data about each area.. and conversations with residents to create area profile and gap analysis to see what needs to change...

Starting with #BordesleyGreen as pilot area. But tricky: people have different ideas of how to define a #neighbourhood.. and many residents don't reply to council surveys...

So @BhamCityCouncil decided to use other #data - lower super output areas are the smallest areas for which there is data..

But, need to have porous boundaries too. However defined, 'neighbourhoods' don't fit into neat boundaries...

So instead are using system of adjacent hexagons to define each area, but with porous boundaries...

Then assessing what's missing and focusing council investment and service delivery, according to indicators in the toolkit...

Indicators such as 'access to public transport within 400m', or '#play facilities within 400m', '#tree coverage'... etc

But some fine-grained #data is missing and @BhamCityCouncil will need to commission new surveys...

And the pilot raises lots of questions eg if zone crosses ward boundaries, who is politically responsible

So lots achieved by @BhamCityCouncil, but still lots to work out... If implemented would transform the way the council operates.