[Crumbly Oldy]

Had letter from city council saying they are looking at allotments in the city and have hired consultants to look at the provision of them.  A number of meetings have been arranged with allotment holders.  Am I right in saying that the government intends, or has already, removed the statutory requirement of councils to provide allotments?  I suspect the council has already decided on a course of action and the consulltations are just boxes to be tickes

[mumofstig]

It has been confirmed previously on the Forum, that the Government does not intend to remove the provision of allotments from the Councils.

Read this thread

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=75259.msg854519#msg854519

[Willie_Eckerslike]

I hope they don't change it. We are desperately trying to get our council to provide more ground as we have over 2,000 on the waiting lists for 14 sites.

[arugula]

... we have over 2,000 on the waiting lists for 14 sites.

Where's that then?

[Willie_Eckerslike]

... we have over 2,000 on the waiting lists for 14 sites.

Where's that then?

Oldham.

We've just created an extra five plots on our site and they were snapped up.