A report giving an update on the progress towards establishing self-management as an option for managing the Council’s 20 allotment sites.

Further to Minute 7 of the meeting held on 15 December 2020, the Executive Director of Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report that an update on the progress towards establishing self-management as an option for the Council’s allotment sites.  The report set out a summary of the progress made against the Allotments Action Plan, which had been attached at Appendix A, as follows:

Potential self-management groups: Since the publication of the consultation report, the Parks Team had provided active support and advice to groups or active individuals.

Site clearance and improvement: The Parks Team had made significant progress in clearing and levelling overgrown and abandoned plots.

Allotment Project Officer: A fixed term Project Officer had started work on 1 October 2021 to lead all aspects of the introduction of self-management in allotments and develop further the Allotments Plan. 

The report proposed that all elements of the Action Plan be progressed and that the completed allotment plan be submitted to the March 2022 meeting of the Committee for approval prior to implementation from 1 June 2022.

Resolved:

(1)      That the report be noted;

(2)      That the Self-Management Allotment Plan be submitted to the Housing, Neighbourhoods and Leisure Committee meeting to be held on 10 March 2022;

(3)      That self-management of allotments be introduced as an option from 1 June 2022.