I've read this with great interest. We are on a 'community' allotmetn site. Basically a new housing estate gave the Council the allotment site as their 'green' space for the estate.
The Council applied for some specific grant to do with improving peoples health, and so as wellas having an alotment we would be involved in workshops around cooking/healthy lifestyle etc - these havent happened yet.
I was told when we took the allotment on, by the allotments office that we couldn't have chooks cos it's a community allotment.
Now the council have handed over the management of this site to an external non-profit community group who have said they want us to be able to have chickens, and possibly more in the way of livestock and the group leader told me she would look in to whether we are allowed chickens, given the adice I was previously told.
Now having read through this thread, I think the Allotment Act would still apply to us? If this non-profit community group walked out on the scheme the allotments would revert back to the council.
If anyone could confirm that this does apply to us that would be great.
Thanks