UK: MP clashes with minister over allotments
Rotherham MP Sarah Champion.
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By Paul Whitehouse
Rotherham Advertiser
June 12, 2025
Excerpt:
ALLOTMENTS may be an unlikely political battleground, but the public appetite for rented garden plots has seen Rotherham MP Sarah Champion clash with the Government.
A debate has taken place in Parliament over the proposed Planning and Infrastructure Bill and she called on the Government to provide more ‘space to grow’ with increase numbers of allotments as part of that.
As part of her campaign with the Royal Horticultural Society, National Allotment Society, Horticultural Trade Association and members of the National Community Garden Network, Ms Champion urged the Government to adopt her proposed change in legislation and provide more land for allotments and community gardens.
Eight million people in the UK have no garden at home and the waiting list for allotment plots is now nearing 160,000.
In her speech, she referred to a letter she had received from the Minister for Housing, which said her proposed legal change was “not necessary” as there was “nothing preventing” local authorities from including these policies in their spatial development strategies.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/uk-mp-clashes-with-minister-over-allotments/
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