Housing finds its new-age nirvana

Chain stores are few and far between on Fore Street, the steep hill that is the main shopping and social focus in the south Devon town of Totnes.
Instead, organic greengrocers vie for attention with vegetarian restaurants, while a disposable coffin adorns the window of a 'green' funeral parlour. And how many high streets can boast more than one reiki spiritual healing centre?
Totnes has just 8,500 residents, but a big reputation for chic Bohemianism and alternative lifestyles that draws in people from across the world: an Indian entrepreneur is starting a tuk-tuk (motorised rickshaw) taxi firm using bio-fuel cabs, and some Americans run an organic clothing shop selling jumpers made from the fleeces of local sheep