Background on the site

This is the site of the proposed new design for a community allotment.

As part of a permaculture course 5 people got together to see if they could design a site that would become an assest to the community. Knowing the site as a mainly derelict it seemed the perfect location. We looked into the history of the area and began a consultation process with many residents in the area. From this we found that people would enjoy using the site once again as it had previously been thriving allotments however we also noted a few areas of concern including issues surrounding conservation of wildlife, knotweed and vandalism / fires.

Allotments on the site in 1949, From knowyourplace.co.uk

We drew up a site survey and explored the limiting factors to our design.