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Allotment Stuff => Allotment Movement => Topic started by: Common_Clay on April 10, 2006, 10:05:22

Title: How Many?
Post by: Common_Clay on April 10, 2006, 10:05:22

Does anyone know how many allotments there are in the UK? Thanks.

Title: Re: How Many?
Post by: Columbus on April 10, 2006, 18:46:37

Hi Clay  :)

The office of the deputy prime minister put the figure at approx two hundred and fifty thousand (but decreasing) in 1998 from a war time peak of just over one and a half million plots.

(Source: Allotted Time by Robin Shelton. A good read available from your local library)

There is a website at http://www.odpm.gov.uk/

Col

Title: Re: How Many?
Post by: plot51A on April 14, 2006, 21:29:56

Sorry to be pedantic - but ODPM only covers England not Wales, Scotland or NI - so you need to add some on for a UK total. Have no idea how many there are here in Wales!

Title: Re: How Many?
Post by: Columbus on April 15, 2006, 08:08:20

Hi Clay, Hi Periwinkle :D

Please be as pedantic as you wish.

Is there similar information somewhere for the rest of UK ?

Col

Title: Re: How Many?
Post by: amphibian on May 26, 2006, 18:29:18

According to the BBC there are approximately 330,000 occupied plots in the UK.

Hpwever, that is far from the whole picture, in the next town there is an entire site overgrown and unoccupied, I would love to know how many empty plots there are. Also many plots have been split into half plots, thus the true loss may be masked.

Title: Re: How Many?
Post by: saddad on May 31, 2006, 22:54:55

How was their list compiled and by whom? We are the second largest site in our city but as a private limited company, yes we actually own 12 acres of prime building land adjacent to the ring road, would we be included?
 ???

Title: Re: How Many?
Post by: Leonnie on June 01, 2006, 22:01:11

would the NSALG know the answer to that question? http://www.nsalg.org.uk/ (http://www.nsalg.org.uk/)

Title: Re: How Many?
Post by: saddad on June 01, 2006, 23:04:11

I doubt it AB, but we are "persona non gratia" there just now as we defected to the other group!
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