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Originally Posted by JanieB  Re the Council's obligation to provide allotments, I asked about this at our last meeting as we have some land available to provide extra lotties. It is designated as Public Open Space but is currently derelict. The rule is that if there are no lotties at all and six or more parishioners ask for them than the parish is obliged to provide them, they are not, however, obliged to provide an allotment for everyone on the list. |
This is absolutely right - councils have to provide land for allotments (where possible) if at least six residents ask them to do so. I've yet to meet anyone who has had success with this though - or even got together with five other people. It's not easy to get hold of the waiting list I imagine - data protection and all that.
I wonder if we can get something going on this website so people can register their interest in a given location? Or would we be too thinly spread? Maybe an ad in your local paper is a quicker way forward?