The TTT Building and Housing Group Vision for Totnes and Dartington:

"New development will prioritise truly sustainable development by ensuring high quality, locally distinctive, low carbon development, and transportation systems that meet the needs of the Totnes / Dartington area, particularly for affordable housing and jobs.

Development will be centred upon reducing vulnerability to fossil fuel and natural resource depletion, to energy and commodity price rises and to climate change. The area's locally distinctive strategy for enhancing social and economic resilience and for reducing its ecological footprint is by relocalising and diversifying the economy and reducing transport dependency.

This will be accomplished through the promotion of sustainable local self-reliance in food, renewable energy and other primary resources. Efficient and sustainable use of limited reserves of energy, building materials and greenfield land will be achieved through the combined planning policies of densification and of enhancement of the public realm and community spaces, leading to the development of compact convivial energy-efficient communities.

For Totnes, the focus of the town will be widened from the town centre through the development of both banks of the central riverside area as a welcoming 'gateway' to the community. This will help to increase the vitality, community togetherness and self-containment of the town as a whole and assist the wellbeing of Bridgetown. For Dartington, the settlement’s identity will be enhanced through recognition of its inter-dependence with Totnes while ensuring that the local character and identity of each and their physical separation will be preserved. Development of each will recognise and build upon the unique natural and cultural heritage, creative potential and progressive ideals of the population of Totnes and Dartington".

Click on the links below to see the community responses to the current DPD documents.

DPD Media Release July 08 

DPD Community Forum Report May 08

TTT BHG Response to Consultation : Full Text

TTT BHG Sustainability Matrix

Totnes and Dartington DPD: Community Response Document Oct 07

Appendix - Objectives Oct 07

Appendix C1 Oct 07

Appendix C2 Oct 07

Minutes of the DPD Focus Group meetings

Housing 1st April

Employment 2nd April

Employment 10th April

Housing 16th April

Plenary meeting 23rd April