{"id":879,"date":"2014-04-26T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stqw.org\/?page_id=879"},"modified":"2015-05-15T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:16:28","slug":"health-and-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/draft\/health-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Objective 11\u00a0Protect local education, health and community facilities from commercial development pressures<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

11.1.1 \u00a0The StQW neighbourhood is not particularly well endowed with local facilities.\u00a0 Some have been lost in recent years and others remain under threat.\u00a0 The map below shows the main facilities in the area on which residents rely.\u00a0\u00a0 The importance of these services remaining within walking distance, in a part of London with relatively low car-ownership levels, has been emphasised in responses to the StQW consultation survey.<\/p>\n

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Local facilities in the StQW area, including the part of LBHF which was not designated.<\/p><\/div>\n

Insofar as policies in a neighbourhood plan can influence the availability of these facilities, there are limitations on what can be achieved through planning policies.<\/p>\n

11.1.2\u00a0 The two GP surgeries in St Quintin Avenue have been under threat of closure, with the site sold for residential development.\u00a0 Latest information is that this threat is not live at the moment, although there remains local concern as to what will be the eventual outcome of a current\u00a0 ‘review of the primary care estate’ being undertaken by the NHS West London Clinical Commissioning Group.\u00a0 Hence the site remains allocated in this Draft Plan for social and community use.<\/p>\n

11.1.3\u00a0 \u00a0The St Charles Hospital lies just outside the boundary of the neighbourhood area.\u00a0 Services on this site have been reconfigured as the St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing.\u00a0 This provides a range of primary care services including a 66 bed renal unit, diagnostics including X-rays, ultrasound, echocardiography, and phlebotomy.\u00a0 A range of Community clinics are also available, and the walk-in Urgent Care facility is one highly valued by local people.<\/p>\n

11.1.4\u00a0 \u00a0This hospital has not delivered Accident and Emergency services in recent years, and Hammersmith Hospital in DuCane Road has hitherto provided the nearest A&E.\u00a0 This service closed in mid 2014 as a result of the NHS reconfiguration in North West London. This leaves St Mary\u2019s in Paddington as the nearest A&E service for North Kensington, a source of concern to many residents.<\/p>\n

11.1.5\u00a0 In terms of education provision, the neighbourhood is well served at primary and pre-prep level, with Oxford Gardens Primary and Bassett House School.\u00a0 At secondary level, the new Kensington Academy and Leisure Centre has now opened in Lancaster Road, some half mile from the StQW neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

11.1.6 \u00a0\u00a0Adult education facilities at Wornington Green (to the east of the neighbourhood) have been reduced as a result of redevelopment.\u00a0 The same applies to the Isaac Newton Centre of Ladbroke Grove, which has been leased by RBKC to the Alpha Plus Group for use as a preparatory school.<\/p>\n

11.1.7\u00a0 \u00a0Westway Sports Centre, just to the south of the StQW area, provides a wide range of sports facilities.<\/p>\n

Social and community facilities<\/strong><\/p>\n

11.2.1\u00a0 \u00a0The neighbourhood has long lacked any form of community building or meeting space, other than the local church hall.\u00a0 This hall is itself in regular use by Bassett House School and hence has limited availability for public meetings and other community events.<\/p>\n

11.2.2\u00a0 \u00a0As explained in Section 4 of the Draft Plan, the West London Bowling Club is based on one of the original \u2018backland\u2019 sites incorporated in the original layout of the St Quintin Estate.\u00a0 The StQW Forum has worked with the club to increase its membership and widen its range of activities.\u00a0 Wider use of the clubhouse building has now added the stock of available community buildings, for meetings, lectures and other events.\u00a0 The building, the bowling green and its immediate surroundings has swiftly become a valued part of neighbourhood life, and is now is now a registered Community Asset.<\/p>\n

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11.2.3\u00a0 \u00a0The approved scheme for the new development in Argyll Place (Pangbourne Avenue) includes provision of 440sq.m of \u2018community space’.\u00a0 It was on this basis that the development was deemed to meet the requirements of RBKC Core Strategy Policy CK1 in respect of loss of former hospital floorspace.\u00a0 This space (recently completed) is due to be used by a Montessori nursery school, and for a clubroom for a local youth football team.<\/h5>\n

HEALTH AND EDUCATION:\u00a0 DRAFT POLICY StQW 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

11a) To allocate the site of the St Quintin Health Centre in St Quintin Avenue for social and community use.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

11b) In the event of any redevelopment of the site the St Quintin Health Centre, to require the developer \u00a0to include sufficient good quality floorspace at ground floor level to provide replacement accommodation for the two existing GP surgeries to remain at this location.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

REASONED JUSTIFICATION The Quintin Health Centre is the key health facility in the StQW Neighbourhood (the St Charles Health and Wellbeing Centre lying just outside the boundary).\u00a0\u00a0 Proposed StQW Policies 11a and 11b are in general conformity with RBKC Strategic Objective CO1 on Keeping Life Local and Policy CK1 on protecting social and community uses.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Location of GP surgeries at St Quintin Health Centre<\/p><\/div>\n

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Objective 11\u00a0Protect local education, health and community facilities from commercial development pressures 11.1.1 \u00a0The StQW neighbourhood is not particularly well endowed with local facilities.\u00a0 Some have been lost in recent years and others remain under threat.\u00a0 The map below shows the main facilities in the area on which residents rely.\u00a0\u00a0 The importance of these services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":997,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-879","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions\/1388"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stqw.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}