{"id":95504,"date":"2025-03-14T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=95504"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:09:23","slug":"penarths-green-fingered-residents-turning-to-community-gardens-as-solution-to-chronic-allotment-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2025\/03\/14\/penarths-green-fingered-residents-turning-to-community-gardens-as-solution-to-chronic-allotment-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Penarth’s green-fingered residents turning to community gardens as solution to chronic allotment shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The council-run waiting list for allotments closed in 2018 because it had risen to 94 people<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

SOME green-fingered people in Penarth are turning to community gardens to help solve a chronic shortage of allotments with some plots remaining in the same hands for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penarth has just\u00a054 allotment plots across three sites – Harbour View, Paget Terrace, and Windsor Road – and all those sites are full. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a list of people waiting to take over any allotments that become available, but this doesn’t happen often. There is a waiting list for allotments, but it had piled up to 94 people when it was closed to new applicants seven years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, only a few plots have changed hands each year since with\u00a0just 23 new leases signed since 2020<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allotments leases are awarded without an expiration date to the next person on the waiting list. Allotments only become available when the leaseholder voluntarily relinquishes the plot, passes away, or the council removes the lease due to a lack of maintenence by the leaseholder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Penarth residents stand little chance of getting one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View from the allotment <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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