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Rural Regeneration: Totnes - Coggle Diagram
Rural Regeneration: Totnes
Baltic Wharf Regeneration Scheme
Cost £15million to build
45 homes all sold out for £465k+
Used to be a disused timer yard= was a brownfield site
Riverside houses and appartments
Eco friendly and easy to run
Limited development available
'Transition Town Movement'
Totnes was the first town to do this scheme
Lip service (said but not acted upon)
Sustainable future
Solar panels, engagement to grow food, branding and more high streets
Totnes High Street
Resistant to globalisation
Very few chain shops
'No to Costa'
Outcry when Costa arrived in 2012, high engagement of petitions and stickers= costa didn't stay long
Independent shops= gentrified area= high disposable incomes
Community focus
'Totnes Pound'
Own currency meant the money spent stayed in the area, now places are cashless it is unused. £10=£11TP
Up hill one way street
85 coffee shops, charity shops and independent boutiques
Diversification of rural building use
Planning policy guidance
local level planning permission
Encouraged mixed use clusters
Disused farms, creative industries
Rural challenges
Second home ownership
Lots of empty property=less housing stock-increases house prices
Primary industry
Agricultural industry= seasonal=effets economic output/employment
Infrastructure
Poor road networks, difficult to navigate, inclement weather cuts it off
Technology: slower broadband
Sense of place
'quirky', 'different','30 coolest places to live'
'New age' town: Meditation, crystals and astrology
Identity is strong, independent shops, TQ9ers and Totnesians
Informally twinned with Narnia, Narnia shop- tourism
Legend of Brutus Stone (thought to have discovered GB), attracts tourism
Market town, 'Taste of the West 2016'