Plot by Lib-Dems to get more allotments
Reporter: KEN BENNETT
Date published: 09 September 2014
Derek Heffernan
A veteran campaigner is asking Oldham Council to support more and better-protected allotments.
The council has a statutory duty to provide allotments, says Councillor Derek Heffernan - and the current 431 plots aren’t enough.
The council’s Liberal Democrat Group believes the council needs to identify more sites and boost funding to develop allotments. At Wednesday’s council meeting, Councillor Heffernan will ask the council to identify sites with the potential to become allotments.
The Lib-Dems also want the council to grant council-owned allotments statutory status to give them legal protection - to stop the council selling small plots to developers.
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