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Sustaining the plot

By: Contributor(s): Series: Town & Country Planning ; 70(9) September 2001, 235(1)Publication details: 2001Subject(s): Summary: Considers the status, preservation of, and law relating to, allotments. Looks at how far the recommendations made in the 1998 House of Commons Select Committee's Inquiry into 'The Future of Allotments' have been implemented. For instance, notes that the Inquiry's call for the encouragement of good practice has recently been answered by the Local Government Association, the Greater London Authority and the Shell Better Britain Campaign, in sponsoring "Growing in the Community". This is a practical manual for managers seeking better things for and through allotments. Suggests it may be time to re-define allotments - their sizes, forms, facilities, and functions - within the limits that statutes allow, to sustain the plot.
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Considers the status, preservation of, and law relating to, allotments. Looks at how far the recommendations made in the 1998 House of Commons Select Committee's Inquiry into 'The Future of Allotments' have been implemented. For instance, notes that the Inquiry's call for the encouragement of good practice has recently been answered by the Local Government Association, the Greater London Authority and the Shell Better Britain Campaign, in sponsoring "Growing in the Community". This is a practical manual for managers seeking better things for and through allotments. Suggests it may be time to re-define allotments - their sizes, forms, facilities, and functions - within the limits that statutes allow, to sustain the plot.