New Allotments?

[Chantal]

From today's Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... lot122.xml

[Beryl]

Very interesting Chantel, I'm all for it. So many allotments have gone under concrete. Developers could set aside land and provide on site facilities.
They build sports centres, etc. so why not allotments?

Beryl.

[Primrose]

Maybe if the developers weren't so greedy and built houses with gardens big enough to have a small vegetable patch, instead of squeezing as many homes as possible on a small site, we wouldn't have to demand so many allotments. But I do hope the public keep up the pressure on this one otherwise it will be another valuable tradition which is permanently lost.

[Compo]

I read this article in Saturday's Telegraph, but lets' face it they cannot build good enough schools, shops, pubs and link roads for new developments, I think it is unlikely that they will set aside land for allotments.

As they say 'pigs fuelled and ready to fly'

Compo

[Di]

I read this article in Saturday's Telegraph, but lets' face it they cannot build good enough schools, shops, pubs and link roads for new developments, I think it is unlikely that they will set aside land for allotments.

As they say 'pigs fuelled and ready to fly'

Compo

while not over optimistic about human nature when it comes to greed and development, allotments have traditionally been those bits of land that couldn't be used otherwise - along railways, up cul de sacs etc. If they can be fitted in that way, its a relatively cheap way for developers to sweeten the planners.

As to keeping allotments away from the concrete the best we can do is keep them fully occupied and try to raise their profile.

Even if I had a bigger garden I'd still want an allotment for the sake of the contact with other gardeners, the variety and the chance to be in a big open space that adjoins the country.

Better give everyone some sort of garden, and stop cooping people up in flats like battery hens.