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This item is from this weeks Louth Leader. Not sure if these 'temporary' allotments are a good thing - would it mean that if you were allocated a number of bags of compost to grow you veg...

a)you would no longer be on the allotment waiting list
b) The council would have fulfiiled their obligation to provide allotments

Any body know if the system actually works?

PLANS are afoot for a series of temporary allotments to spring up all over Louth.
The idea outlined by Coun Jill Makinson-Sanders at a town council meeting was for discarded builders' mechants' sacks to be filled with compost for growing vegetables and flowers.

She said: "These could be located on derelict areas of hard standing. It is a practice which has worked well elsewhere. With the allotment site full, it could help to ease the increasing demand for new sites to be made available."

it has its pros and cons. I think a good comprimise would be to set these up for people on waiting lists, but keep them on waiting lists as priority for 'real' allotments when they come up. I do understand there is limited land, but people who want allotments should keep on pressing for them so that maybe the council think twice before selling land to a development etc.

Another plus point would be that it would give people practise and an idea of whether they'd actually keep up with the commitment of tending an allotment, so may actually cut waiting lists if some people decide that they dont have the time.

Saw them used on Gardeners World, some where in London where all they had was a bit of derelict concrete/tarmac. Dropped a load of these in rows, and people could have one or two, each person grew different things looked reall good. A bit limited, but better than bare concrete.