Just received this from an allotment friend....

"Don’t know if you have seen this already

Eric Pickles is proposing councils are released from providing allotments"


http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/61225

Having done some checking it appears he is actually proposing to remove the
statutory obligation on Councils to provide new allotments where there are
none if 6 or more locals demand them. So it seems not to have any effect on
existing sites, does not remove Statutory Allotment Land status and
protection, or suggest that plots are built on. Seems like a gut reaction
petition to me, what do others think?

-- Regards
Bob Hobden
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from the W.of London. UK