As an essential part of evidence gathering for this REconomy work, we have been working for some time on the Local Economic Blueprint project for Totnes and District.
Based on public data, we have estimated the potential value of key sectors of our localised economy, and built a coalition of partners to turn these opportunities into reality. Together we have identified some activities and projects that will take this work forward.
To find out more please see the following:
Summary report: Totnes and District Local Economic Blueprint
- Download – T&D Local Economic Blueprint Summary Report
PDF – 1MB – Lower resolution – best for on screen reading - Download – T&D Local Economic Blueprint Summary Report
PDF – 17MB – High resolution – best for printing - REconomy strategy three year plan
NB: not all projects in the Blueprint are represented on the plan yet, as they need to be discussed and prioritised with the sector-specific networks and that the plan is subject to ongoing revision and depends, to some extent, on resources still to be found.
If you are interested in the data sources we used and the assumptions we made, take a look at the detailed report for each sector. There is no detailed report for Care and Health due to resource constraints – see the summary report for the info on this sector.
- T&D Economic Blueprint – Renewable Energy – detail section, final version
- T&D Economic Blueprint – Food – detail section, final version
- T&D Economic Blueprint – Retrofit – detail section, final version
The wider Economic Evaluation project
This work is part of a national pilot run by the Transition Network’s REconomy Project
TTT is one of three places that are exploring how best to do this kind of community economic development, based on this “economic evaluation” process; the other places are the county of Herefordshire and Brixton, Lambeth. Together these three pilots provide the widest possible learnings given they represent a market town, a rural county and an inner-city area.
Find out more about the national Economic Evaluation work here, including outputs from other places and information to help you run a similar process in your own area.
The Totnes work has been kindly supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.