Allotment Bill in Parliament

[morton]

This has been blagged off another allotment forum and as I have not seen it mentioned on here I thought it worth a whirl.

Tony Baldry (Banbury, Conservative) is proposing a cross party bill. Should we as members of A4A be supporting this? First reading was on 19th February and the second is on 14th March.
Have a look at
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-02-19a.154.0&s=allotment#g154.1

If you are in agreement then write to your own MP and urge him to back this move, and write to Tony Baldry and let him know that you've contacted your MP, so he can button hole said parliamentary colleague at Westminster.

You can do this simply through www.writetothem.com

[morton]

[manicscousers]

thanks for that, morton, will send off to my mp amd to Tony Baldry  :)

[Suzanne]

Same here. Thanks :)

[betula]

I Will email my M.P thanks for bringing it to our attention ;D

[kt.]

Just done both. Sent to my MP and replied to Tony Baldry also.
(I even added a link to the subject on this site - well you never know, he may chat one evening......)

[BAK]

done - written to MP and Tony Baldry.

[franklynn]

Will there be a requirement on local councils to maintain in good order existing allotments so that they do not fall in to ruin. I think that my council are deliberatly rumnning down allotments so they can claim that there is no call for them so they can bring in developers to build new houses. I
ll slap my own wrist for that blasphomy
Frank n Lynn

[Cuke]

"It places a duty on local authorities to provide sufficient allotments according to demand"

Interesting.. I always assumed it was simply to provide alotments if there was demand. Read like that however it implies that the length of a waiting list could be used as a reason to ask for more allotments in the same area even if some already exist...

[arphamoe]

Done my bit. We have a dispute going on locally between Town and District Council over the 'sequestration' of a piece of land under very dubious activities. Perhaps a bit more judicious examination will help stop Council's abusing their powers (but I won't be holding my breath!!)

[morton]

With all of the people who are on waiting lists for allotments and who are members of this forum I would have thought that this topic would have yielded a far greater response from the membership as a whole.

So come on everybody it is so easy to e-mail your MP by just following the links given.

[Trevor_D]

Done.

There are flats going up everywhere in our area, as soon as a builder can get his hands on a couple of adjacent houses. (Lots of big ones round here, with large gardens.) And virtually all of the allotment sites in the constituency has a waiting list!

[saddad]

Done...
Our MP is M Beckett, sometime foreign secretary... who has supported our site in the past...
fingers crossed.
Saddad  8)

[saddad]

Got my Pro-Forma reply from the PA today...
;D

[arphamoe]

My MP has previously raised the issue and is supporting the Bill. He obviously thought about the reply I received today - nothing standard about it at all. Hope he's not the only one with an independent mind!!

[kt.]

Been working away for the past week. I returned today, and had a written reply from my local MP saying he is going to look at the proposed bill and inform me of any outcome.

[hippydave]

i sign the petition many months ago to stop allotments being built on and i just received this reply i have just received   http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14997.asp

[morton]

The Allotments Bill should get its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday 14th March so if anybody sees any reference to it perhaps they could post it for all to see.

[Jeannine]

Prescott lives 1/4 mile from me, shall I stick a note through his door!!

[Hyacinth]

i sign the petition many months ago to stop allotments being built on and i just received this reply i have just received   http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14997.asp

Praps we've all received it today? I got mine.

[asbean]

Yep, we got it too