Whole Town Strategy

Producing a sustainable Small Town Strategy

Welcome to the central section of the SusSET ‘Small Town Strategy’.

Our circle, or wheel, diagram illustrates our principal recommendation that your own small town strategy should contain a range of components reflecting the 3 key aspects of ‘sustainable development’ – social, economic and environmental.

Each of these aspects contains 6 distinct components that overlap and complement one another.

We recommend that your strategy either:

(i) has a central vision that radiates out into the components, or

(ii) is built up from the components into a coherent whole.

Note that although your town will have its own emphasis upon different components depending upon circumstances, we still suggest that each component plays a part in your overall ‘jigsaw’.

How your strategy all comes together is what we term a ‘Whole Town Strategy’.