Greater Dartmoor Local Enterprise Action Group (GDLEAF) is a new organisation. It has been set up to invest in environmental and community based projects that encourage innovation and promote the prosperity of the Greater Dartmoor area.
The organisation is being run through Devon Renaissance, and with support from South Hams District Council.
We have been working hard to set up the organisation to deal with some of the main economic and social issues facing the communities in Greater Dartmoor. We started by preparing a Local Development Strategy. This outlines our plans for how funding could help make improvements in the area. This was agreed by SWRDA who then allocated us £1.8m to help deliver some of our aims and objectives.
We put together our delivery plan for 2009 to show what we planned to do in our first year, GD LEAF delivery plan 2009.
The area covered by Greater Dartmoor is:
- All of West Devon
- Cheriton Bishop
- Ashburton and Buckfastleigh
- Bovey
- Chudleigh
- Dunchideock
- Haytor
- Moorland
- Teign Valley
- Teignbridge North
- Kenn
- Woodland
- Denbury and Torbryan
- Ogwell
- Broadhempston
- Avon and Harbourne
- Bickleigh and Shaugh
- Cornwood and Sparkwell
- Dartington
- Eastmoor
- Ivybridge
- Marldon
- South Brent
- Totnes
- Littlehempston
- Berry Pomeroy
- Ashsprington
- Ermington
- Ugborough
This funding comes from Europe and from Defra, under the Rural Development Programme for England, which aims to safeguard and enhance the rural environment, improve the competitiveness of the agricultural sector and foster competitive and sustainable rural businesses and thriving rural communities.
You can find out more about the background to this funding here.
The projects are being delivered through the South West of England Regional Development Agency, with Defra as the Managing Authority regionally.
