Understanding Southwark's Foodscape

Southwark 2019

Understanding Southwark’s Food Experience Food Systems & Public Life Insight report

Gehl utilizes evidence-based observational research to collect a baseline of public life and public space data in cities around the world, and makes the argument for systemic change to improve our urban realm.

Jeff Risom, Partner, Project Director Sophia Schuff, Project Manager Louise Kielgast, Associate Martin Nelson, Technical Designer Archie Cantwell, Project Architect Jonna Ekholm, Project Architect Olivia Flynn, Project Designer Afton Halloran, Food Expert Consultant

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This report sets out an analysis of data generated from a study conducted by Gehl in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, an independent urban health foundation working to improve the health and well-being for people in the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark.

The study was carried out in two wards, Camberwell Green and Peckham Rye, in order to assess the impact of place on people’s dietary behaviour.

Key findings outlined in this report provide a baseline to understand the challenges and opportunities that can inform potential future interventions in Southwark’s urban food systems.

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A special thanks We would like to thank The Social Innovation Partnership and Kaizen Partnership for their help in sourcing paid volunteers for surveying.

This work could not have been conducted without their help.

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Executive Summary

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Nearly 40% of London’s children are overweight or obese, with the highest rates occurring in the areas of greatest deprivation - The London Obesity Taskforce

The Mayor of London has shown commitment to tackling obesity in London, with focus on the growing rates of childhood obesity. There is increasing knowledge on the diverse factors that influence obesity, and for this reason Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity has been funding projects and initiatives that holistically combat childhood obesity.

The onus of the increasingly global obesity epidemic has traditionally been put on individual people. However, more recently, research has identified the role our environment and historic urban planning practices have played in growing obesity trends. Gehl’s approach to studying public life and public space can expand knowledge within current systems thinking approaches by interpreting the factors that influence how people engage with their surrounding foodscape.

This foodscape study analysed the wards of Camberwell Green and Peckham Rye in Southwark. Both wards have similar demographics and socio-economic makeup, but differ in child obesity rates. High streets are the heart of these wards, where most life exists, namely around public transit hubs, yet opportunities for public life are limited.

This study outlines findings on: 1. the character of places young people spend the most time 2. the role of transport hubs in everyday public life 3. the way in which fast food places have become civic beacons for all.

Through understanding where and how young people use the foodscape, we can design, programme, and create invitations that promote new opportunities and behaviours.

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Introduction Gehl — Making Cities for People

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Background Analysis

Initial Question:

What is the human experience of the food environment in Camberwell and Peckham Rye?

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Introduction — Where are we?

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How can we understand the relationship between food and the city?

Foodscape A foodscape can be defined as a landscape of purchased and/or consumed foods and the resulting cultural associations.

A foodscape’s perspective is an essential part of understanding how our surrounding environment impacts our interaction with food. This systemic approach is especially helpful when addressing complex challenges such as childhood obesity.

Through studying the foodscape we can paint a more representative picture of given challenges, that leads us towards comprehensive and impactful interventions.

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Introduction — Where are we?

Experience & Behaviour I eat out to get away from home, get fresh air, and eat without having to cook.

I like to eat out because it is fast and easy!

I really only eat out on special occasions, I like to cook.

I think eating out is fun.

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Introduction — Where are we?

Finding affordable food isn’t easy in London A change in cost and affordability is making food, healthy or not, more difficult to access for low-income households.

From 2006-2008, the gap between income and food had increased by over 20%. This trend shows no signs of slowing down, as the price of food continues to rise faster than income.

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Introduction — Where are we?

Neighbourhoods are amongst the 10% most deprived areas of the UK.

Our study focuses on areas of inequality

Borough of Southwark

According to a recent report issued under the Mayor of London’s Food Strategy, Londoners most likely to struggle with access to affordable, healthy food are...:

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single parents, (as % of total households)

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and disabled Londoners.”

(as % of eligible workforce)

(Index of health and disability deprivation) Data from Camberwell and Peckham Rye Wards Source: London Data Store & City Intelligence, 2019.

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Childhood obesity in London

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Though childhood obesity in London is a ticking time-bomb, a systems approach to childhood obesity is taking root at local and national levels. Awareness of societal costs is growing.

One of the root causes of obesity is inequality. Children from low-income backgrounds are much more likely to become obese. Low-income neighbourhoods are susceptible to unhealthy food environments.

For example, there are 2–3 times as many takeaways in the most deprived areas of England compared to the least deprived areas, and children from lower socio-economic groups consume takeaways more frequently than other children.

Most overweight in UK (52%)

London wards Data: National Child Measurement Programme (2019).

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Introduction — Where are we?

The London Plan: the bigger picture The Mayor’s London Food Strategy is a plan to help all Londoners access healthy, affordable and sustainable food. It puts food at the heart of the agenda for tackling issues related to health, inequality and climate change.

This project has the ability to:

City Plan 2036

Shaping the Future City

City of London DRAFT LOCAL PLAN | SUMMARY November 2018

THE LOND ON FOOD STR ATEGY

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• create new intervention opportunities for the implementation of future plans in the strategy • apply new methodological knowledge for making local and rapid action • generate a new perspective on the role that the built environment can play in systems change

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There is no silver bullet!

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Introduction â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Where are we?

Defining the spatial focus of this study Infrastructure: networks (transport, distribution etc).

Public Space: streets, parks, and plazas

Food Places

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Approach to foodscapes Gehl â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Making Cities for People

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Methods for studying foodscapes Studying foodscapes requires a triangulation of data to understand the activities that people engage in, the environments they spend time in, and their sentiment towards where and what they like to eat and do in the city.

This is a bridge between quantitative and qualitative observational research, that puts an emphasis on being actionoriented as a result of the data collection.

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Approach

On site interviews and observational counts Intercept surveys were conducted on Thursday, July 20th.

The Public Space and Public Life study (PSPL) and Foodscape survey happened on two full days - Saturday, July 22nd and Tuesday, July 25th - in 8 sites chosen across the two wards. Extra spot-counts were conducted throughout the week to supplement the survey data by Gehl staff.

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Intercept surveys Thursday, June 20th Cloudy throughout day

The PSPL ran from 08:00 - 20:00 each day.

Intercept surveys ran from 07:30 - 19:00.

The Foodscape survey ran from 7:30 22:00 each day.

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Camberwell PSPL & Intercept survey locations

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All survey locations were selected to capture the ebb and flow of public life and consumption behaviour of the two wards, focused specifically around its streets and foodscape and a target age of 6-16 years old.

Locations were selected based on the orientation of schools and bus stops in collaboration with the Southwark Council, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity and the local surveyors themselves.

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All survey locations were selected to capture the ebb and flow of public life and consumption behaviour of the two wards, focused specifically around its streets and foodscape and a target age of 6-16 years old.

Locations were selected based on the orientation of schools and bus stops in collaboration with the Southwark Council, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity and the local surveyors themselves.

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The New Rd/Wyndham Rd area was selected due to its proximity to a variety of schools and to capture a foodscape that invites more local people to consume.

Camberwell Foodscape Survey Locations

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Peckham Rye Foodscape survey locations were selected with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity to capture a representative selection of high street and non-high street foodscapes.

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The Nunhead area was selected due to its different spatial typology and its changing obesity rates more recently.

Peckham Rye Foodscape Survey Locations

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Approach

Public Life survey methods Public Life data is collected by counting and observing people. We watch how people spend time and move, and who is doing it.

People Spending Time

Body posture, activities happening, age and gender of people spending time

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People Moving

Volumes of people walking and cycling

Age and Gender

Who the people are that are moving

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Grocery Store Offerings

Survey Methods Foodscape spatial quality

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80% transparency

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Over 50% of facade covered in adverts

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Survey Methods Foodscape user experience We measure who is spending time in individual food places, and how they gather in groups or are alone.

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Approach

Survey Methods Intercept survey Our surveyors approached the public with questions aimed at understanding the sentiment of local people. This helps to interpret data collected through other survey methods. Questions were framed by how people spend time in the public realm, how they use the city, the reasons why people choose to eat out, and how people spend time with their friends and family.

The Intercept survey was taken by 353 people and conducted by 16 local residents.

Target audience: 6-16 year olds.

Date: July 20th, 2019.

Time: 07:30 - 19:00.

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Summary Key Findings

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People & places

Transport hubs

Civic beacons

...the life and character of the street defines peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience of the foodscape.

...transport hubs are hot spots for social and food consumption activity.

...food places double up as civic hubs.

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Background Analysis

These wards have vibrant, active streets

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Key Findings

In comparison to world class streets, these are not far off...

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Key Findings

Streets are where people spend time!

Across both wards, people spend most of their time in the street.

This amount of activity is what makes streets the backbone of the wards and an important asset.

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Key Findings

These wards have similar spatial typologies...

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Key Findings

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Key Findings

Foodscape frontage ranking Each observed food place within each ward was qualitatively ranked according to the quality it communicates to passersby.

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• High transparency • Bright with lots of character • Articulate materials and details • No interface with products/ no seating

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Background Analysis

On-street fresh food culture

65% of shops in Peckham Rye display fresh produce.

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Only in Camberwell Green.

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Chapter — Where are we

Women are the most dominant observed gender in supermarkets Supermarkets face the street differently depending on where they are. Few are active and transparent, but based on the frontage mapping we found that they are: • Mainly extra large, dull

and inactive frontages • A variety of transparency levels • Generic inside • Communicate loud advertising outside

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Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference between green grocers & kiosks?

These visual cues send different signals to different people

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Green grocers are open air and spill onto the street

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Where are most people walking?

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Where do most people spend time?

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Young people are most visible on weekdays

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Key Findings

Spatial typologies of places people spend the most time

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Stationary activity in parks While these parks differ in the amount of people staying, they both have high levels of active recreation.

Camberwell Green - The Playground

Jocelyn St. Park - Physical and Digital Meeting Place 258 people

37 people

32%

96%

in conversation and on electronics

exercising or playing

Locations of observed behaviour

96% Exercise or play

3% Eating or Drinking

21% In conversation

11% using electronics 2% eating or drinking

Behaviour observed

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Two useful thoroughfares

Youth love Camberwell Green

Ping pong table

Camberwell Green is by far the most popular place for young people!

This space is designed with areas that offer something different for everyone.

Its success in hosting a wide variety of activities makes it possible for small children to play in the playground but also possible for teens to hang out easily. There is space for sitting and people watching, ping pong and picnicking, and even shopping for produce at the Saturday food market.

Furnishings make this park inviting

Trees make great microclimate

Temporary market

Tai Chi in the park

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Background Analysis

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Pedestrians on the high-streets Church St.

Rye Lane South 5,440 0-14 years old

17,380 people 14+

4,410 0-14 years old

18,160 people 14+

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Young people seem to be attracted to a certain type of place These highly trafficked streets are packed with young people spending time in places with a similar look and feel.

Rye Lane South - McNeilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6-16 year olds are dominant

Church St. - Patty Island 6-16 year olds are dominant

50-80% advertising Vibrant but inactive Medium size frontage

20-50% advertising Vibrant but inactive

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Frontages are similar across places in both wards that young people spend time

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Young people are staying at transit locations Denmark Hill

Rye Lane South

50 people staying / Hourly

53 people staying / Hourly

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People 14+ 35% Waiting for Transport

23% In Conversation

Young People 0-14

30% Waiting for Transport

23% In Conversation

Young People 0-14

35% Waiting for Transport

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Date: June 22nd & 25th Time: 8:00 - 8:00

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32% Waiting for Transport

25% In Conversation Calculated as a snapshot of activity at any given moment

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Signals in the environment What is the role of transport hubs in sending us signals for how we should experience transit and consume?

Frequent advertising Poor visibility to street life

Denmark Hill

Bright frontage

Healthy food options hidden

26% Young people observed as eating in public space.

18% Rye Lane

15%

Invites you to buy

Easy access to what you want...

...or what you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want

Camberwell New Rd. *Graph showing young people eating as a % of all observed activity.

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Signals in the environment Are the signals from the built environment found at transit stops similar across London, or unique to specific locations?

Bright frontage

Simple, subtle branding

Quick food option No real invitation to stay

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Transport hubs act as

food hot spots.

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Camberwell is disconnected

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Waiting for transport

22%

Waiting for public transport is the dominant activity for young people Camberwell New Rd.

Camberwell Church St.

19%

Rye Lane

14%

In conversation

15%

Using tech

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Fast food follows public transport Camberwell Green

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Fast food location

Transport route

Rye Lane

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Dist: 5m

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Key Findings

Exposure doesn’t stop around schools The link between the rush-hour commute and fast food is wellacknowledged. Steps have been taken to limit the advertisement of certain fast food products on TfL property. Similarly, these are the same locations that have been targeted by Cancer Research UK’s recent obesity campaign.

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Key Findings

25%

Fast food places are acting as bus stops

of all people spending time were waiting for public transport across both wards 5m

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Key Findings

1 in 3

people who we observed in the foodscape were in fast food shops after school hours.

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Choice is most available at the most vulnerable time of day

The Behavioural Triangle of making food choices

Time A

There is a strong correlation between the density of food places and transportation hubs.

Across both wards, people step off the bus straight into the arms of fast food, promoting the perfect storm of a fast food Bermuda Triangle where ultimately healthy options are getting lost.

Decision

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Outside McD’s

Waiting for bus

Dinner time

At home

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Key Findings

Bus stops are also chatty spaces Transportation hubs in Camberwell and Peckham Rye are meeting places, places to socialise, places to come into contact with people who are different from yourself, and they also serve as your connection to where you need to go.

Denmark Hill

22% Young people were found talking most at these locations Rye Lane South

21% 19% Camberwell New Road

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Young people eat out because they want to be social

I eat out when mum is working

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When asked why they eat out, they said it is to be social with friends and family, and also because they like the food!

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The civic role of food

places

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Key Findings

25-30% of food eaten by adults is fast food Across both wards, 84% of all adults eat out 1-5 times a week.

25-30% of those meals are from fast food and takeaway places.

Intercept Survey 164 people 16+ Date: June 20th Time: 7:30 - 7:00

1-5 times a week 5+ times a week

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Key Findings

Young people also eat out a lot!

Across both wards, 88% of all young people aged 6-16 said they eat out 1-5 times a week.

Intercept Survey 189 people Date: June 20th Time: 7:30 -7:00

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Key Findings

Again, it comes down to being social!

On a weekday, after school hours, fast food places become the most social place to be.

Young people aged 6-16 were observed being the most social in Camberwell at: McDonald’s Nandos Burger King McNeil’s Noodle City

These are the places 6-16 yr olds say are their favourite places to eat

Foodscape survey: Date: June 22 & June 25 Time: 7:30 - 10:00

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Key Findings

Camberwell Limited amenity offer

11

38%

*Source: Cultural infrastructure map (GLA)

*Source: Respondent Survey (189 responses)

Peckham Substantial amenity offer

non-food See food public as public amenities amenity

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10%

*Source: Cultural infrastructure map (GLA)

*Source: Respondent Survey (189 responses)

non-food See food public as public amenities amenity

As density of civic institutions decrease, people spending time in food places increase.

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Performance

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April 2010 and April 2016, “ Between an estimated £387m was cut from youth spending across the UK.

*Source: The Damage Report, UNISON Local Govt.

fast food outlets in London “ 8,000 today – one for every 1,000 Londoners, a number increasing around 10% every year.

*Source: Shift

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Key Findings

Life at McDonald’s

Small children under 6 are dominant in McDonald’s on Denmark Hill at 8AM

Both McDonald’s on Rye Lane and Denmark Hill have the highest number of young people recorded at 2:00pm.

This corresponds with the highest number of young people walking on the street.

Rye Lane McDonald’s: 84 youth passing by on the street 95 people inside Denmark Hill McDonald’s: 59 youth passing by on the street 55 people inside

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What makes certain places social?

Across both wards, young people aged 6-16 were registered socialising most in Nandos, Noodle City, and McNeil’s chicken shop.

Facade: 136m2 Advertising: 20 - 50% Glazed: 47m2 (34%)

Each of these frontages has: • Low transparency • Vibrant yet are mostly inactive • Clear communication

of what to expect inside • A range of advertising

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Do these places communicate something similar?

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B

Facade: 51m2 Advertising: 50 - 80% Glazed: 12m2 (23%)

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Where most young people reported eating out most frequently

Facade: 92m2 Advertising: 0 - 20% Glazed: 46m2 (50%)

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Facade Butterfly Walk

And why is McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the place with the most public life?

Teens running up & down for the WC

Because it is a welcoming place with tasty food, where anyone can be for as long as they like.

Facade: 170m2 Advertising: 50% Glazed: 58m2 (34%)

Quick bite for the local workers

Breakfast for small kids Place to chat with passersby After-school queue

Couples people watching

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McDonald’s as a civic amenity Young people dominate places that are low stakes environments where almost all behaviour is not monitored and condoned.

- Informal seating constellations - Counter service - Generic interior design

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McDonald’s and other fast food places have become an extension of the public realm, much like churches and other community spaces.

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Bus time scheduled

Bus stop

Fast food as an after school amenity

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School proximity

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Fast Food

Chicken Shop

School

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School ends

11 minute walk times makes fast food easy!

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School ends

11 minute walk times makes fast food easy!

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Walking toward town centre

Camberwell

Only 12% of Ark All Saints students live in the area And of all young people surveyed, 25% are commuting to Camberwell for school.

Jumping the bus home

Experience

Waiting for bus

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Place

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Data driven hunches Together with stakeholders from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, local social impact organizations, members of the Southwark council and GLA, and LSE Masters students we workshopped intervention hunches based on the foodscape study findings.

Transport hubs and high streets • Regulate advertising amount and appearance based on nutritional value • Remove density of fast food places in proximity to transport hubs • Increase number of green grocers in Camberwell • Design new street furniture schemes for the high street • Pilot new bus stop designs to make them more interesting to wait in Public Space and transportation networks • Youth engagement events in the park • Activate ‘dead spaces’ + invite for more use in already sticky places with activities & programming specifically for teens • Create alternative options for active transport routes to school • Improve active frontages around parks and plazas Civic Spaces • Replicate the McDonald’s effect in a non-food civic hub on the high st.

• Host pop-up food events at churches to provide food education • Subsidize places with more food variety and better nutritional content

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Learning from local youth 1

Talking

Talking A. Mapping daily routines

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B. Creating ‘favourite’ places

Listening!

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Listening Walking tour of the neighbourhood with local facilitators and young people

Foodscape

London

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Overview Neighbourhood Foodscape Strategy

Global scale

Individual Scale:

Neighbourhood scale:

Public Space

Public Life

Food Place

This Foodscape Strategy is comprised of three interventions. A series of tactical and strategic concepts paired with overarching principles.

These recommendations are meant to improve the public life and public spaces of Camberwell and Peckham Rye, and to create healthier everyday environments for young people.

By making incremental changes to the built environment and in turn the foodscape, we can create lasting impact on health outcomes in the wards.

Impact starts with new options and opportunities for healthy food, and results in systemic behaviour change.

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Overview Vision

From an underperforming public realm for young people...

...to a healthy neighbourhood with unique character!

A district dominated by obesogenic high streets, with underperforming public spaces and fast-moving traffic, that encourage youth to use fast food places as their social spaces and leave them habitually consuming unhealthy food.

A healthy place with a network of public and civic spaces with opportunities to learn, gather and socialise. One with a unique local character that invites residents to walk and cycle, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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Key Recommendations

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Youth are most vulnerable during after school hours when moving through the ward to and from school. Streets are often unsafe and uninspired, making it difficult to utilize existing public spaces.

High streets are high stress environments with few invitations for spending quality time in the public realm. Their design is putting pressure on the street and bus stops are where youth are found most frequently.

As the funding for civic amenities has decreased, the number of fast food places has increased. For many young people in the area, fast food places have become their de-facto civic space.

Strengthen public space networks

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Create new civic spaces for young people

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Key Concept Strengthening Networks Principles for connecting existing amenities through a coherent, youth-friendly network for walking and cycling. Simultaneously breathing life into the high street, while alleviating pressure from overcrowding by providing alternative ways for moving.

How? Leverage existing efforts through the Local Authority and initiatives.

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Strengthening Networks Framework for public life Key Finding

Principles

High streets are overperforming, whilst parks and public spaces are under-serving young people’s needs.

A. Activating existing public space

B. Better connected schools

C. Improved street quality

• Close the gaps in the pedestrian network • Remove fencing and soften building and park edges • Activate the unused residual space • Provide opportunitites for play and active recreation

• • • •

• A good wayfinding system to amenities and key destinations • Upgrade public spaces • Ensure spaces can be used at different times of day with better lighting and active ground floors • Let existing shops “spill out” into public space

Limit school streets from cars Create outdoor spaces for staying Safe walking routes Expand the bike network

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Strengthening Networks Simple changes

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‘Kelly’ Park Summer Rd. Park

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Introducing a simple hierarchy creates new possibilities for improving street quality.

Primary routes are upgraded to be safe for pedestrians and cyclists; urban shortcuts are given new expression; existing public spaces are sewn together.

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Temporary functions create meeting places off the high streets

4.

Programming in residual spaces encourages play and physical activity and attracts young users

2.

Intuitive approaches to wayfinding for target groups.

Example: The Dark Green Line for Moorfields Eye patients.

5.

Coherent network of streets with pedestrian prioritisation

3.

Lighting safer routes at night

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Upgrade public spaces to accommodate a diverse range of activities and seating options.

Communicate clearly with a wayfinding system to connect parks, local amenities and other key destinations.

Ensure spaces can be used at different times of day with improved lighting and active ground floor uses.

Activate unused residual space with programmes to encourage young users to use the public realm.

Expand the network of streets by creating coherent pedestrian and cycle priority streets.

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Parks as bright, accessibile and activated public spaces

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Streets safe for school pupils

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Continuous pavements for more convenient options

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Community gardens

Strengthening Networks Key Principles 1.

Improve quality and the atmosphere of parks through lighting design.

Increase accessibility of public spaces by removing fencing.

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Activate space through programmes targeted towards young people.

Encourage temporary pedestrian take-over of school streets during peak commuting hours by limiting car access and creating staying spaces for play and active recreation.

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Make walking routes safer and more convenient for pedestrians by continuing pavements and cycle paths over minor junctions.

5.

Signalling green transport routes

Improve council wide maintenance standards for green spaces in over-looked residential areas.

Creating more convenient, local connections through green routes.

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Key concept Super Stops Principles for emphasizing the role the bus plays in young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s everyday lives by improvements to the built environment, making waiting more tolerable and even enjoyable.

How? Collaborate openly with TfL and GLA to identify pilot bus stops in the wards, while leveraging existing community groups for input and involvement.

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Super Stops Framework for Public Life Key Finding

Principles

Transit stops are contested and act as an extension of fast food locations.

A. Blending the edge of the stop

B. Infill leftover space

C. Inviting waiting spaces for different users

• Promote social seating configurations • Break down public space barriers for varried waiting options • Provide protection from noise and air pollution with street trees and set back seating opportunities

• Cater to people’s needs through activating unused public spaces • Alleviate pressure from the high street • Provide protection from negative aspects of the micro-climate • Make bus stops near schools more attractive to act as catchment zones • Activate waiting with outdoor civic amenities

• Make a variety of seating available • Provide adequate space for pedestrians, cyclists and buses • Minimise visual exposure to nonnutritional fast food advertisements • Connect bus stops to the overall pedestrian network • Create safe comfortable areas to wait

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Super Stops Parks and streets A. Camberwell Green

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C. Rye Lane

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Super Stops Blending the edge Bus stops along parks are the perfect opporunity to provide a more interesting waiting experience, alleviating the demand on bus stops near fast food places.

PARK = PERMEABLE

FLEXIBLE SEATING

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Superstops Leftover space A. Peckham Rye

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C. Camberwell Green

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Super Stops Infill activity There are too many under-utilized spaces like the front of 2 Girls Cafe. Take places that have the highest number of youth daily, and provide interesting activities and stimulating environments.

PAINTED SURFACE WAITING ONLY

GST 001

‘HANG-OUT’ SEATING

WELL CONNECTED

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Super Stops Side Streets A. 211 Rye - Vacancy

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C. Daneville Rd.

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Super Stops Inviting waiting spaces In wards with little outdoor amenities, activate the untouched alleys to pull attention toward physical activity and lingering.

LEADS TO NEW AREA

SECONDARY STREET NO INVITATION HIGH STREET

PLAY SURFACE

SECONDARY STREET INVITE INFORMAL SEATING

SIMPLE EQUIPMENT

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Key concept Civic Spaces Principles for providing civic spaces that meet young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs for a safe and social place, while providing real opportunities for entrepreneurship, community gathering and expression.

How? Collaborate with Local Authority to identify sites for potential permanent or temporary programmes. Local practitioners such as community development groups should be engaged from input to design, to help move from pilot projects to permanent spaces.

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Civic spaces Framework for Public Life Key Finding

Principles

Young people have few civic amenities freely available to them, causing them to eat unhealthy food as a way to socialise.

A. Provide indoor spaces for socialising

B. Let indoor civic uses spill outside

C. Connect existing civic amenities

• Provide space for spending time with light adult monitoring • Mimic McDonald’s with varried social areas to accomodate different user groups • Add possibilities for different activites in the same space • Provide kitchen facilities and/or cheap healthy food options

• Create pavillions with activites outside of civic amenities • Introduce quality street furniture and lighting • Create community focused events • Bring existing civic functions outside, eg. libraries

• Make the identity of the neighbourhood clear with civic amenities that communicate to the public • Location matters! New amenities should be located along everyday routes • Use a wayfinding scheme to help people orient themselves C

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Case Study Peckham Levels Peckham Levels is a temporary project that takes up a 5-year residence in an underused multi-storey car park in the heart of Peckham. Supporting employment through the arts and creative practice, the project exists to support ‘creative and ambitious local people get their ideas off the ground.’

The project has, however, attracted criticism from BAME communities for its lack of a continued inclusive framework. Could this model be adapted for young people through a more inclusive approach?

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Case Study Rebuild Foundation Founded and led by artist Theaster Gates, The Rebuild Foundation aims to regenerate the south-side of Chicago through neighbourhood scale initiatives.

The projects support and strengthen communities by providing free arts programming, creating new cultural amenities, and developing affordable housing, studio, and live-work space.

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Case Study The Peckham Experiment Operational between 1926-1950, The Peckham Experiment was designed to study how certain environments could encourage healthy behaviour within communities. Housed in what was called the ‘Pioneer Health Centre’ locals were given access to a range of amenities, including: swimming pools, cafes, dance halls, gardens etc.

The utopian experiment was eventually closed down in the post-war period owing to the (then) newlyformed NHS’ approach to treating the sick above encouraging the healthy.

However, the Experiment has recently risen to attention through the focus of the South London Gallery’s youth programme, the Art Assassins, who considered its relevance to questions of health today.

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Civic Spaces Culture House The Children’s Culture House is an innovative project, developed with the fanciful and fun input of children.

The house offers flexible spaces and customized furniture, which have been proven to enhance children’s creativity and active participation. The spaces provide opportunities for varied use and accommodate age groups from 0 -18 years with changing needs.

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