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The definition of
what is a small town is critical to any
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programme of
support – SEEDA’s criteria is an example
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of good practice
and useful
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Health check
process used in the UK should be used as
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an example of
best practice
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Very strong
agreement that it is the towns of under
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10,000
population that are the ones that need help rather
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than the larger
ones – changes of shopping patterns etc
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For towns
themselves it must be a ‘bottom up‘ process
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where they
develop their own solutions – BUT there is
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also a need for
a top down process in order to develop
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mechanisms for
supporting local solutions
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There is a need
to share research – and to develop a
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mechanism to map
existing research and enable it to be
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accessed
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