The Glasgow City Council is trying to turf off a community growing group who transformed derelict council land into a growing space.
Despite having more than 500 supporters, including MSPs Bob Doris and Patrick Harvie, authors Alasdair Gray and Louise Welsh, and criminology expert, Dr Laura Piacentini, who said last month that it would be "folly" to evict the gardeners from the area, the council has taken two of the members to court. It instead wants to be able to sell the land for property development despite their legal duty to provide allotments and the Convention Of Scottish Local Authorities report that urges local authorities to acquire, manage and develop more land for allotments.
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If only there was more respect for common sense..
WAKE UP people in 'apparant' power; money is not everything!!!
Utilize empty (office) buildings (for your money-making-power-struggle-schemes) and give back to the people the right to grow on OUR land.
I want fresh, local, organic, clean, good honest food! And I am sure I am not the only one..
May ALL councils take it as a priority to provide the land we all so desperately want and need.
Better food = healthier people = cheaper NHS bills (for the people still stuck on the money thing..)
The whole point is to do it together and look after each other as a community!
Is there a way we can get these decision makers on hands and knees on a plot of derelict land to grow something with their own bare hands and get them to feed it to their own family? Just so they can really start to feel the importance of whats going on/ wrong here?
Love, Peace and Happiness for ALL
By Loeske on 11 October 09 at 15:03 | Report misuse
Perhaps someone should send Glasgow City Council this link:
www.aberaeronallotments.org/videos/FP/AAA_video_MontyInCuba.htm
And explain to them that they need to wake up and smell the coffee. A lot of councils across the UK seem to be run by old retired fogeys that are about 50 years behind the times. Property development isn't conducive to feeding the people of the world or cutting down on the ridiculous "air miles" & fuel used to ferry in food that can be grown here in our own backyards.
By BigGee on 03 September 09 at 09:39 | Report misuse
Power to the elbow of all allotmenteers involved in this and praise to your community spirit. I truly hope you succeed and that the council learns to not only honour its community obligations (at the very least by offering somewhere else for you all to grow), but learns also to 'listen'. Something dearly missing in this consumerist world.
S. Green
By rc1496 on 22 August 09 at 15:25 | Report misuse
At the end of the day it is not the Councils land,it is bought with tax payers money,without us all working there would be no Council.So come on Glasgow City Council give it back to the people.
By growers7274 on 21 August 09 at 14:16 | Report misuse