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Newcastle City Council, and the Allotments Working Group, have developed an allotment strategy to ensure that Newcastle is a leading provider of allotments in the country.  The Vision and objectives of the Strategy are outlined below. To read the full Strategy document please follow this link. Allotment Strategy 2010-2015 (pdf 1.5 mb)

Our Vision Statement

Our vision is the establishment in Newcastle upon Tyne of the adequate availability
of easily accessible allotments with high quality amenities; in pursuance of
excellence in the production and showing of vegetables, fruit and flowers via
allotment gardening and driven by the current pioneering system of devolved
management.

We support the allotment tradition of innovative individualism, but in conjunction
with the provision of a socially inclusive sense of community and the facilitation of
community projects. We believe that allotment gardening should be
environmentally concerned, sustainable and wild-life friendly.

Strategy Objectives

In order to achieve this vision, the Allotment Strategy has the following objectives:

• To recognise the multiple benefits of allotments for Newcastle
  residents, and for the City as a whole in terms of its future
  development guided by the Sustainable Communities Strategy,
  the Sustainable Cities Index and its WHO status as a Healthy City.
• To safeguard existing allotment provision and to increase allotment
  provision in Newcastle in line with known demand and with regard to
  future demand.
• To continue to improve the quality of allotment facilities for allotment
  holders in Newcastle and to continue to improve the quality of
  Newcastle’s innovative devolved allotment management.
• To recognise and promote the importance of allotments in
  environmental protection and sustainability, especially in relation to
  future threats of high food cost, fuel scarcity and climate change.
• To recognise the importance of biodiversity and to augment the role of
  allotments in preserving and enhancing biodiversity.

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