Allotments under threat - case studies please

[Di]

Hi All,
I haven't been on the forum for ages, and my hasn't it changed. Glad to see a few familiar names though.

I'm studying Landscape Architecture, and am writting a report on why Planners and developers should not see allotments as potential building plots. One argument against them doing so is the cost and time taken up in protests, the bad publicity and the fact they might be beaten.

I'd therefore be very interested to hear from anyone who has had to fight for their plot, and especially if you won.
Di

[peter]

Di, dig in the archive, there was at least one thread where someone fought and won last year.

[Tigger]

There's been an article recently in one of the Gardening Magazines about an urban area winning against planners to protect their allotments. The Council eventually encompassed the allotments in the design and there was a photo of a modern appartment block with said allotments. I think it was in Ireland, but I can't be sure. If you can't find any reference to it - come back to me and I'll dig (pun intended) around for it.

[Johnboy]

Hi Tigger,
I think the article you are referring to was in Edwin Oxlades slot only a couple of months ago
TKG Magazine.

[Tigger]

You're right JB.

Di - I can send you a copy if you PM me with your details.

[Di]

Thanks for the tips, I have that KGM but haven't had time to read it (der) so I'll go and find that article.

In serious risk of losing my allotment myself if I don't get faster at studying and find some more time for gardening. Doesn't bear thinking about

all the best
Di

[Tigger]

You might also try the link from Steve Partridge about his allotment and the corresponding links to others. Makes good reading - if a bit depressing at times (chickens).

[esty]

hi i am doing a photography project which is pased on the enviromental concerns and issues on allotments.
i am looking at the threats of allotments at the moment is it possibla if any one could give me some information or links which might help me

thanks

esther

[peter]

Esther try;

The archive in this site, search.

http://www.allotments-uk.com/forum/default.asp

http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/ari/

and google.

[Guest]

thank you very much for your help

i want you in my bed!

[oldherbaceous]

Peter please let us all know how you get on.
Bet you have not had an offer like that for a while

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres no fool like an old fool.

[peter]

What a very forward young lady.

Tell you what OH, I'm already taken, but you sound like a young man about town....

[oldherbaceous]

Peter i'm more like an old man out of town.
I would not want to tread on your toes.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres many a fine cock come out of a tatered bag.

[peter]

OH, given the syntax of her posting, I suspect that perhaps the young lady had been browsing the fourum, read your signature, mistook this forum for a somewhat different forum and responded in kind.