Dear John
The Family Budget Unit at York produces 'modest but adequate' and 'low
cost but acceptable' household budgets for a range of family types split
by what is needed by household eg fuel, food, clothing etc..
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/fbu/
Best
Steve
Pickerill, Dr J. wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I work with a group in Wales trying to establish a large-scale
> eco-village (Lammas - www.lammas.org.uk <http://www.lammas.org.uk>).
> They are putting together a planning application and need some help,
> beyond what I can offer.
>
> "As part of the planning application we need to evaluate the proportion
> of household needs met from the land by each household. As part of that
> calculation we need to quantify in £pounds each households annual food
> needs and annual clothing needs. We are trying to format a common
> approach and so we have been batting around figures amongst ourselves
> for this. However we may well need to back these up. Can you help us? We
> have been assuming that we are seeking an annual figure for adults and a
> figure for children, though it may be the case that there should be more
> categories. For example to feed a 1 year old is quite different to a 14
> year old. Either way some kind of solid foundations/ basis for the
> figures would be really useful. I would like to emphasise that it is
> needs rather than consumption. For example Green and Blacks chocolate
> and M&S silk stockings are not necessarily needs!"
>
> Would anyone be willing to give them a hand? does anyone have any
> expertise in this area? or could anyone point me in the direction of any
> literature we could use? Get back to me if so.
>
> Thanks
> jenny
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