Plans for more allotments

John Fareham and John Abbott are working to secure another “model allotment” site on the former Newland Primary School Playing fields adjacent to Goddard Avenue.

Meetings have been held with a social-enterprise company who plan to roll out a number of such allotments across the city and who are hopeful of being able to secure a source of external funding for part of the cost of the work. If they can succeed in doing this we will be able to meet the rest of the cost through our own ward funds. This would form part of our long running commitment to increasing and preserving allotment provision and also happens to harmonise with the efforts John and others have been making to have the Council raise its game in matters relating to the alleviation of poverty – as all who have had them will know, home grown vegetables taste better but they are also cheaper.