Transcript Local Area Agreement for East Sussex

An overview of East Sussex
- Facts and figures
Dr Diana Grice
East Sussex Downs & Weald Primary Care Trust
and
Hastings & Rother Primary Care Trust
Health of our Residents
The health of East Sussex Residents is generally good.
• Life expectancy for both men (77.5 years) and women (81.9 years) is
better than national average.
• Number of deaths attributable to smoking, and for people under 75 from
heart disease, stroke and cancer are lower than the national average.
• 29% of adults are estimated to smoke, this is higher than the England
and regional averages. Across East Sussex over 41% of adults are
estimated to eat healthily and 17.3% of adults are estimated to be obese,
these are both better than the England averages.
However, there is significant variation in health experience within East
Sussex
Life expectancy
Deprivation
Demographic changes
•Population is slowly increasing
•497,000 population – 1% increase between 2001 and 2005. Eastbourne
has fastest growth (by 3.4%)
•A growing elderly population
•1 in 4 residents are over pensionable age. East Sussex has highest
percentage of very elderly residents of any county in England.
•Future population growth
•County’s population is forecast to increase to around 519,000 by 2026.
•There will be heavy concentration of older age groups
•More deaths than births
•1600 more deaths than births in East Sussex each year
•Continuing net in-migration
•32,300 moving in and 28,600 moving out in 2004/5 (East Sussex and
Brighton and Hove combined figure
•Household size decreasing
•Over next 20 years number of people living alone is likely to increase and
will represent 42% of households by 2026
Employment
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High percentage of small firms
Nearly three-quarters of businesses employ fewer than five people
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Increase in businesses
Since 1995 the number of VAT registered businesses has increased
by 13.2%
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Greater percentage of people in work
Percentage of working age people increased from 71% in 1991 to 75%
in 2001
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Small rise in unemployment
2005-6 number of people who do not work and receive Job Seekers
Allowance increased by 2.8%(by 156) to 5,731 across the county
•More people working from home
•Number more than doubled in 10 year period to 2001 – 24,500 (12% of all
residents who work)
•Low average wages
•2006 – average gross weekly wage for full-time earners in East Sussex was
£473. This is 17% below South East average and 12% less than average for
Great Britain
•Significant areas of deprivation
•13 Super Output Areas in East Sussex fall within the 10% most
disadvantaged in England
Learning
•Skills levels are improving
•December 2005 – over 47% of residents of working age are qualified to at
least NVQ Level 3 (increase of 4%)
•Educational attainment is improving
•East Sussex is the third highest local authority, outside of London, for the
rate of pupil progress
•Key Stage 2 English 78% 2006 (compared to 63% 1997) and Maths 74%
(compared to 61% 1997)
•GCSE and equivalent 5+ A*-C 55.4% 2006 (compared to 45.5% 1997)
•The provisional average A Level point score per candidate in 2006 (revised)
was 245.3 compared to 233.8 in 2002
•Number of people entering full-time higher education increased by 350 in
2006/06 compared with 1999/2000
Housing
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South East Plan 2006-2026
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Proposals for an extra 27,000 homes across the county by 2026 (1,350
per annum)
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Quality of homes is worst in the private sector
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10,954 homes in East Sussex that are not fit to live in – 95% are privately
owned (representing 4.7% of all homes in the county)
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Increase in need for affordable housing
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Number of households on housing registers has increased by over 40%
since 2001 – 11,000 households (April 2006)
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80% of households on housing registers are small households who need
up to 2 bedrooms
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Affordability gap is still high
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Average house price in county is £200,900, although they are higher in
Lewes, Rother and Wealden.
In Summary
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Positives in the county:
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People’s skills improving;
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A greater percentage of residents in work;
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More people working from home;
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The gap reducing between people on high incomes and people on low
incomes;
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Household incomes increasing; and
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The quality of housing improving.
In Summary
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Areas to improve:
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A slight increase in unemployment;
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Longer journeys to work;
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The economy not performing well;
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A shortage of land available for business development;
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Continuing pressure on the housing market from net in-migration
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High house prices and low earnings leading to a very high gap in what
people can afford; and
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Not enough new affordable housing available