Making room to grow: How should councils respond to the huge rise in demand for allotments?

摘要

When displaced allotment holders in north-east London became the unlikely heroes of the BBC documentary Building the Olympic Dream, shown earlier this month, one could sympathise with the Games developers as well as the smallholders. For all the project's green credentials, it seems that it is the loss of the allotments that has impressed the public mind. But when the Olympics was awarded to London back in summer 2005, few would have anticipated that allotments would have such a high profile, and bein such demand, four years later.