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Allotments

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  • 22-05-2004 10:43am
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    luckat
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    There's now a waiting list for allotments at Clondalkin (off Lynche's Lane), and it's growing, so if you want to get your own plot - about 150 feet by 50 - to grow vegetables, ring South Dublin County Council and get on the list, quick.

    A new association was founded by the plotholders last night, at a meeting in Lucan Sports & Leisure Centre, and Paddy Fogarty from the council's Development Department came and told the members about the council's plans.

    There's a maillist for plotholders - anyone who has a plot can join. It's very new, but we hope to do things like seed swaps, arranging when we'll be on the allotments and so on.

    These allotments are earmarked for housing in the next few years, and the council is looking for new places where allotments might be set up. But there's huge pressure for building land. $$$$$

    Allotments used to be huge in Dublin - there were 40 plots in the 1950s - but they've gradually been gobbled up for housing. So if you're interested in getting back to the state of things where people could walk to a local allotment and grow their family's vegetables and flowers, talk to the would-be councillors as they come vote-hunting, and get it on the agenda.


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