Keep Allotments Alive and Well

Eternal Sunshine · Post by **Eternal Sunshine** » 11 Mar 2008, 09:21

Below is a link to an e petition to Keep Allotments Alive and Well.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Keep-allotments/

We have an allotment on a large site with 90 plots. Withing half a mile there are 3 other sites with over 100 plots between them. However, when I checked Preston Borough Council's plan for the river area all these allotments are coloured in as new housing.

It seems to make it pointless barrowing all that manure onto our plot, improving the soil, planting fruit trees, putting our new shed up, etc, etc if in a few years they're going to turf us off.

I've signed - number 316. The petition is only open til 27 March so hopefully will get a bit more support by then.

leroy · Post by **leroy** » 11 Mar 2008, 10:04

Just signed - can only hope that it becomes evident, even to those in charge of planning of urban areas, just how important allotments will become over the next few years. I have signed up for 3 different sites around where I live, and given the length of the waiting list and the average rate of 2 'lotties becoming free per year, I should be getting one sometime in the 2040s....

Used to live in Preston in a place called Avenham - interesting manor. Great museum and library in the centre though, used to spend hours reading in there. Actually, it was the chance perusal of a book on Jimmy Carter in that impressive building that led me to do some internet research on energy and and onto the chill of Mr Savinar's website.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 11 Mar 2008, 10:37

I've signed. No intention of ever having an allotment though. The way things are going with them I want to own the land I grow my food on.

Bandidoz · Post by **Bandidoz** » 11 Mar 2008, 10:56

Signed

tattercoats · Post by **tattercoats** » 11 Mar 2008, 12:28

Signed - how short sighted can this govt get?

Don't answer that...

fifthcolumn · Post by **fifthcolumn** » 11 Mar 2008, 12:41

I can't help myself from answering that.

Short term post peak the government is going to be the worst monkey on our back you can imagine.

Gordon Greedy Bastard Brown will raise taxes on a continal basis.
As more and more people start to be unemployed and fuel prices feed through to the bottom line we will also find the local council raising their tax bill too and getting ever more heavy handed.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 11 Mar 2008, 15:27

Signed, I'm right after Freddie Starr!

syberberg · Post by **syberberg** » 11 Mar 2008, 17:23

Signed.

Eternal Sunshine · Post by **Eternal Sunshine** » 11 Mar 2008, 20:06

leroy wrote: Used to live in Preston in a place called Avenham - interesting manor. Great museum and library in the centre though, used to spend hours reading in there. Actually, it was the chance perusal of a book on Jimmy Carter in that impressive building that led me to do some internet research on energy and and onto the chill of Mr Savinar's website.

LOL - Avenham isn't the nicest area - had some lovely old buildings and a beautiful park but they plonked a load of high rise flats there.

They're regenerating the area now though, I believe.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 12 Mar 2008, 10:20

Wow the number of signatures has nearly doubled since no. 316! I signed and then forwarded it to another energy discussion group and to our local Green Party (seen some of their names up there already), one of whom I know is a lottie/compost nut and will doubtless forward it on...power of exponential growth and a' that.

lancasterlad · Post by **lancasterlad** » 12 Mar 2008, 13:38

LOL - Avenham isn't the nicest area - had some lovely old buildings and a beautiful park but they plonked a load of high rise flats there. They're regenerating the area now though, I believe.

Ah, Preston, the place of my birth - just up from Avenham at Mount Street Hospital. Years later, working just around the corner in Winkley Square.

There is a lot of money going into that area, my wife was working on some programmes in the Avenham area.

Eternal Sunshine · Post by **Eternal Sunshine** » 15 Mar 2008, 09:12

Up to 1667 signatures now

Lancasterlad - hopefully they can restore Avenham back to its former glory then. I love walking through Avenham Park, especially in the summer when everyone is sitting on the hillside.

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » 25 Mar 2008, 21:03

Deadline to sign up by: 27 March 2008 ...

Totally_Baffled · Post by **Totally_Baffled** » 25 Mar 2008, 22:07

Signed

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 26 Mar 2008, 10:02

With you in spirit...I'm not a subject of EW.