This paper discusses the key tenets of my research which looks at the positive health-promoting features of the public realm of local High Streets accruing to the experiential dimension of well-being in everyday life of older people. Away from functional models of ageing in place, it locates my work at the intersection between James Gibson ecological theory of perception and the salutogenic interpretive framework of people-urban public realm interaction, adapted from medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence (SOC) construct (Antonovsky 1993b)(Eriksson & Lindstrӧm 2007). SOC’s three main categories: comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness, frames older people’s interaction with the local High Street public realm which is re-imagined as a landscape of well-being affordances. The paper explores the links between the SOC constructs and the emotional, social, cultural and physical resources these locales may afford to older people.