Policy information sourced from Redbridge Local Plan
LP36: Allotments and Local Produce
The Council will maintain and enhance and where possible increase the amount of land used for sustainable food growing and gardening by:
- Resisting development on allotments unless it can be demonstrated that:
- They are no longer needed to meet local demand; and
- Existing allotment users can be relocated to a new or existing allotment site within a reasonable distance of their homes.
- Promoting investment and improvements to all existing allotments in the borough, particularly at reserve sites at Uplands and Wanstead Park Road to bring them back into use;
- Protecting agricultural land in the borough, in accordance with national planning policy;
- Working with partners and local communities to identify sites with potential for local food growing and gardening projects; and
- Supporting buildings and structures that support local food growing on allotment land which do not have an adverse visual impact on the locality.
Implementation
The Council will work with its allotments section to manage allotment land and assess demand for land to grow food; and
The Council will support and encourage new community food growing spaces as part of the landscape provision within residential development.
For more information please see the Local Plan