Articles by Paul Reach

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)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 51, only one more to go in this tumultuous year! They show again that Dartmouth has outperformed the South west and the UK in all figures. YOY we are only 7% down (Read more)

Anthony Mangnall MP for Totnes and South Devon If you are operating in the Tourism or Hospitality business sector then help Anthony Mangnall our MP fight for your future by completing his survey.  Calling all hospitality and tourism businesses in (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures for week 50, the first full week out of lockdown but in tier 2. We did not receive the UK and South West comparisons until late today so we can only judge this figure on (Read more)

Here are the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth Town Centre for week 49 2020. They show a big week on week increase of 90% and a better than average YOY reduction of only 14.86%, which is less than the UK (Read more)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 48 2020. They are now consistently showing just over -60% down during the Covid lockdown. This weeks figures will give an interesting insight into how much people will return to the high (Read more)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for last week (week 47). You can see that the decline is consistent YOY across the country. There is little we can do to influence this decline so we can only wait to find (Read more)

The Government has announced new support for self employed during the lockdown and beyond. This summarises their support: government increases support under the third instalment of the UK-wide Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, with people receiving 80% of average trading profits (Read more)

We now have the latest Springboard footfall figures for Dartmouth Quay in week 46. The figures show a dramatic reduction in footfall compared to last year. However the figure is similar for all areas of the UK so it is (Read more)

The latest footfall figures for Dartmouth show that in line with the rest of the country the new lockdown has ended the rush of visitors to the town. A decline of 35% over last year is significant but understandable in (Read more)

we now have the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 44. Unfortunately they do not include the comparative figures for the UK and South West, however I have a regular newsletter from Springboard which does give us the overall UK figures (Read more)

Here we have the week 43 results for footfall in Dartmouth Quay. We are still showing a significantly better performance than the rest of the UK and the South West as a whole. Our figures show that we are at (Read more)