Page 40 - ALG Issue 2 2017

National Allotments Week 2017
What are you doing for National Allotments Week?
This year our theme is “Growing the Movement” and is a celebration of all the hard work put in by voluntary association management committees, plot holder volunteers and councils managing, creating, developing and safeguarding sites. Despite the pressure on land to build new houses and the reduction in council subsidies, allotments are still thriving;
34% of the councils that responded to
the 2016 APSE allotments survey stated an intent to increase their allotment provision, mainly via new
housing developments
and this year we will
see the release of land
from BT for hundreds of
temporary growing sites.
developers to accentuate the need to include allotments in this green infrastructure. Taunton Deane, one of the garden towns, has been awarded the substantial sum of £350K to cover the master planning costs and identify the important infrastructure requirements, which include plans for a multipurpose “green necklace” around the development with allotments, recreation areas and a wildlife habitat.
Developers will have to take garden town status into account when proposing new
developments through the local planning process, and we cannot emphasise enough the need for local communities to respond to consultations about their local plan to ensure that aspirations for allotment protection and creation are included. Salford
Allotment Federation wrote about their local plan engagement in the last issue of this magazine and neighbourhood plans are discussed on page ???? of this issue.
So let’s tell the world about our thriving movement; we want to hear about new sites, site regeneration and innovative projects across the UK to include in our National Allotments Week press release. Email diane@nsalg.org.uk with details.
We will also be publicising Open Days
and Allotments Shows in the regions during National Allotments Week and over the summer; let us know about your plans and we will put them on the website and our planned National Allotments Week Facebook page. Watch out for our new National Allotments Week logo that will be available for af liated associations to use on their websites and publicity materials.
In January, the
government announced
plans for the creation of 14
new garden villages and
three new garden towns. Plans for the new garden towns must include green spaces and natural environments for local communities and the Society is presently contacting
Plans for the new garden towns must include green spaces and natural environments
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