Articles by Paul Reach

Once again we can see a significantly better performance year on year which probably reflects a mixture of very low numbers last year and a significant staycation trend this year. This level is twice as high as the average for (Read more)

Apologies for the late posting of these footfall figures, our editor has been temporarily indisposed! You will see a progression through these four weeks where our footfall grows to almost 4 times the national average for the same period year (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures for Dartmouth in week 21. The dramatic growth over last year continues and a good increase over the previous week. I suspect we can all recognise this as the town is now crammed. Thank goodness (Read more)

Dartmouth Town Council was awarded a small  grant from the RHSS fund to create a series of short videos demonstrating to both residents and visitors that Dartmouth, as well as being a beautiful place to spend time, is also a (Read more)

I have been asked to circulate the details of a new funding opportunity for Dartmouth businesses who have fought to survive the Covid lockdown. I am including below the details of a Town Funding Prospectus recently presented to the Dartmouth (Read more)

Here are the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth from Springboard UK. The pattern of previous weeks continues and will probably do so for the rest of the season. Part of this performance is down to the large drop in visitor (Read more)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 18 2021. We are seeing a consistent pattern of increases over last year that are twice as much as the rest of the UK and the South West. Remember we are looking (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures for week 17. As commented last week by Nei Strevens (see left column) these figures are hard to interpret as they are comparing this year to a year when lockdown was fully in place. Unfortunately (Read more)

This is the latest Which report on the best coastal locations for staycations With unheard-of staycation bookings expected, Which? polled views on the UK’s coastal destinations It ranked nearly 100 places, with Bamburgh earning five stars for its beaches, tourist (Read more)

Here are the Springboard footfall figures for Dartmouth town center in week 16. They show a continued increase over last year which exceeds both the national increase and the local South West increase. I think we can all see with (Read more)

Dartmouth footfall last week rocketed up by a massive 746% on last year and 144% above the previous week. This compares to smaller increases in the South West of 345% and the UK as a whole at 455%. This shows (Read more)

Here are the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth high street. They are provided free of charge by Springboard UK. These are encouraging numbers which show Dartmouth is starting to outperform both the UK and the South West as a whole. (Read more)

Now the footfall figures start to look interesting! You can see from these figures that there has been a big rise in footfall in Dartmouth compared to last year. However lets consider some of the reasons for this. Firstly Easter (Read more)

The Springboard footfall figures for week 12 are in and are mostly consistent with the last few weeks. There is no noticeable change in the footfall pattern, but we are approaching some critical weeks over the next month. With the (Read more)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 11 2021. These are measured on the Quay by the boat-float and are provided by Springboard UK. There are the first signs of recovery in footfall in the UK and the South (Read more)

Here are the weekly results for footfall in Dartmouth. This is the week 10 report which again shows similar performance for the whole of the UK in consideration of the current lockdown. It will be a few weeks now before (Read more)

Here are the latest footfall figures from Springboard. They are for week 9 2021. They show Dartmouth is very much reflecting the general trends throughout the UK and the Southeast.

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures from Springboard for week 7 2021. I will not make any analysis on these numbers as they seem to be in line with the UK figures as a whole. They are shown as a (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures from Springboard for week 6 2021. The pattern remains the same as the previous few weeks but out of interest I am publishing the figures for the same week in 2018 (the last time we (Read more)

Here are the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth from Springboard UK. They show a continuing pattern of big reductions over last year. However as the infection rates start to reduce and the vaccination programme seem to be accelerating beyond belief (Read more)

Data supplied by Springboard UK Ltd Here are the latest Springboard footfall figures for Dartmouth Quay. We will not attempt to analyse these numbers during lockdown as they are based on such a small level of traffic they are almost (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures for week 2 2021. If you are wondering what the headline means let me explain. I did not realise that 2020 had 53 weeks in it!!! If you look at Google calendar you will see (Read more)

Here are the latest Springboard footfall figures for Dartmouth Quay. They show a significant week on week and year on year drop in line with the rest of the country, so the effects of the new lockdown are very apparent. (Read more)

Here are the first Springboard footfall figures for the new year 2021. We are performing OK compared to other locations in the UK and the South West however this data precludes the new lockdown so we can expect a bigger (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures for week 52 of 2020, our last figures for the year. We are lacking the comparison with UK and South West so we cannot judge our relative performance from these numbers. However there is a (Read more)