Collective Private Commissioning

Social support is important for people’s health and well-being. Anyone can sometimes use some social support and neighbours can play an important role in this support. Collective Private Commissioning (CPC) could potentially contribute to a higher level of neighbourhood social cohesion and, therefore, could be an interesting type of development where neighbours support each other. However, neighbourhood cohesion and access to neighbour-support received surprisingly little research attention in the field of Collective Private Commissioning. Therefore, this study analysed the influence of individual-, household-, social network-, CPC project- and neighbourhood characteristics on perceived neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived social support from neighbours among the residents of new construction CPC projects in the Netherlands. These relationships were analysed using a path analysis based on data collected in 2016 from a survey of 412 respondents in 60 new construction CPC projects in the Netherlands. The results indicated that characteristics of the CPC project play an important role in neighbourhood cohesion and access to neighbour-support.