Please sign if you can. It seems the council wants to build another school on the playing fields and then use the allotments for an all weather playing field. There is an appropriate sight for the new playing field nearby that doesn't involve turfing allotmenteers off their plots. Many of them have already been moved just 10 years ago and are retired and won't or don't want to start again on fresh ground.
It seems the local Beeb news and the MP have now got behind this story but extra signatures will help too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I think it’s such a shame that so little of the uk is actually built on and they have to use this land for building. There’s 90% or more of country not used or used only for agriculture which isn’t such a big thing for this country anymore, but the allotments have to go!
They are essential for peoples well being, they provide excercise without a gym subscription, get older people out into the community, if there were more allotments i‘m sure they’d be less doctors queues.
Ive signed but as they require your postcode, they’ll probably say what’s it got to do with someone from the other end of the country.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Signed- We are always concerned about the pressure on Allotments, in our area we have 38 year leases but the council can revoke these at any time in the slimmest of pretexts.
Lyn, Philippa - I used my old UK postcode but I think it's just a requirement of the 38 Degrees organisation that helps with these petitions. Also a way of keeping SPAM out.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Please sign if you can. It seems the council wants to build another school on the playing fields and then use the allotments for an all weather playing field. There is an appropriate sight for the new playing field nearby that doesn't involve turfing allotmenteers off their plots. Many of them have already been moved just 10 years ago and are retired and won't or don't want to start again on fresh ground.
It seems the local Beeb news and the MP have now got behind this story but extra signatures will help too.
I think it’s such a shame that so little of the uk is actually built on and they have to use this land for building. There’s 90% or more of country not used or used only for agriculture which isn’t such a big thing for this country anymore, but the allotments have to go!
They are essential for peoples well being, they provide excercise without a gym subscription, get older people out into the community, if there were more allotments i‘m sure they’d be less doctors queues.
Ive signed but as they require your postcode, they’ll probably say what’s it got to do with someone from the other end of the country.
Signed- We are always concerned about the pressure on Allotments, in our area we have 38 year leases but the council can revoke these at any time in the slimmest of pretexts.
Done and also shared with my face book friends whom i'll get to share with thier friends!
atb DD It's going virall .
Thank you.
Lyn, Philippa - I used my old UK postcode but I think it's just a requirement of the 38 Degrees organisation that helps with these petitions. Also a way of keeping SPAM out.