Quality of Life Mapping

An evidence-based approach to understanding health and wellbeing in places

Quality of Life Mapping is an intensive research and engagement programme for local authorities, developers, housing associations and local communities. It provides evidence to inform spatial strategies and to measure the impact of health and wellbeing interventions on an area.

What is Quality of Life Mapping?

Our Quality of Life Mapping service provides a spatial analysis of what local communities value and need in their area, with a focus on health and wellbeing outcomes.

Our expert team combines “passive” data (like Census data or local statistics) with data we actively collect through deep engagement in local communities, based on the themes of the Quality of Life Framework. This helps us to create a clear picture of local socio-economic conditions mapped alongside people’s lived experience of a place.

By doing this, we develop an evidence base for the health and wellbeing needs of a local population and create the ability to measure any change in needs and outcomes over time.

Who is Quality of Life Mapping for?

Our Quality of Life Mapping service is for organisations that have a role to play in shaping new (or regenerated) places and the communities they serve. For example:

Local authorities
Large developers
Housing associations
Local communities, whose lives will ultimately be affected by any changes in their area.

What can Quality of Life Mapping be used for?

Quality of Life Mapping can be used to:

Create a spatial strategy that encompasses existing datasets and combines them with what local people think and feel about where they live
Better understand how Local Plans can be adapted to match the needs of specific communities within an area
Develop evidence-based masterplans based on local need, using the insights gained to ensure the development meets them

Provide a baseline from which to measure the quality of life outcomes of interventions in an area
Add an evidence-based outcomes focus to your social value measurement

Quality of Life Mapping can be used to:

Create a spatial strategy that encompasses existing datasets and combines them with what local people think and feel about where they live
Better understand how Local Plans can be adapted to match the needs of specific communities within an area
Develop evidence-based masterplans based on local need, using the insights gained to ensure the development meets them
Provide a baseline from which to measure the quality of life outcomes of interventions in an area
Add an evidence-based outcomes focus to your social value measurement

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“We would absolutely recommend working with the Quality of Life Foundation. Besides being very good at what it does, the Quality of Life Foundation is leading from the front in ensuring that wellbeing and community engagement are central to the development process.”

Clare Richards,

Founding Director, Footwork

“We would recommend working with the Quality of Life Foundation. Their insight and application of their framework was key to us evolving our data-led approach to understanding communities and the interventions they needed.”

Andy Porter,

Head of Innovation and Technical Services at Stantec

“The Quality of Life Foundation provided expertise and insight into inclusive local community engagement, analysis of qualitative and mapped social value data, and supported us to translate the findings into recommendations and actions to take forward as a partnership of local authorities.”

Ione Braddick,

Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Placeshaping and Engagement Lead

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Quality of life mapping: Harlow and Gilston Garden Town