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Plans for Community Allotment scheme for Clonard residents
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Wednesday May 20 2009
PLANS ARE afoot to establish a Community Allotment Scheme for the Clonard/Coolcotts area and to this end Tom Harpur, originally from Belvedere Grove, is seeking the public’s [...]
A brief history of allotments
The origins of allotments go back over 200 hundred years – they derive from the enclosure legislation of the 18th and 19th centuries in England.
The word ‘allotment’ originates from land being allotted to an individual under an enclosure award (Enclosures were used by richer land-owners to stop the poor grazing their [...]
Im meeting with Jim nolan from wexford people paper regarding the launch of wexford community allotment scheme wcas to see what sort of numbers i can muster up
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Local authorities may provide land for allotments.
2.—(1) Whenever a local authority is of opinion, as a result of representations made to them or on their own motion, that there is a demand for allotments in their area and are further of opinion that the costs and expenses to be incurred by them in providing and [...]
Currently in Wexford there is no community based allotments therefor a group of like minded people have gotten together and formed what is now known as Wexford Community Based Allotment Scheme (wcas).The aim is to develop a allotment scheme in around Coolcots Co Wexford for the people of Belvedere grove Ashfield drive Ferndale park Meadowlands [...]
Currently in Wexford there is no community based allotments therefor a group of like minded people have gotten together and formed what is now known as Wexford Community Based Allotment Scheme (wcas).The aim is to develop a allotment scheme in around Coolcots Co Wexford for the people of Belvedere grove Ashfield drive Ferndale park Meadowlands [...]