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Torbay
A patch of the Devon coastline on England’s south-coast that includes the towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham, Torbay has higher rates of cardio-vascular disease, respiratory disease, and diabetes than the national average.
Its ageing housing stock – it has high numbers of former guest houses converted into relatively cheap houses of multiple occupation, and caravan parks – is identified as a key environmental factor in poor health outcomes in the area.
The report fails to mention that one of the major reasons for the higher than average poor health is because Torbay is a retirement area hugely populated by pensioners and older people tend to have more health problems than younger ones.
Since I moved away in 1997 there has been a huge increase in the homeless population and the drug addicted which also doesn't help the health statistics