Allotment in Kent

[Cloud]

Anyone know of allotments available in Canterbury or surronding area?

[Tori]

I'm in Ashford, there are several alloments here and I'm on the waitng lists but I've been told it could be years!!

[BarleySugar]

I don't know Caterbury at all I'm afraid, so not really very helpful, sorry. We are trying to get some land in Iwade, and have a tentative offer from a farmer, if he can get as much as renting for horses. Still early days but fingers crossed. The parish council have to agree, and there's lots of red tape to go through to get a new site going.

[janto]

hi where are you in the canterbury area.there are 2 on our site not been used for some time/

[Cloud]

Thanington.Whereabouts are you?Who do I get in touch with?

[janto]

allotment

ho cloud shame we are in preston,just outside stourmouth.if still interested let me know.

[Novice Gardener]

I'm in Ashford, there are several alloments here and I'm on the waitng lists but I've been told it could be years!!

Tori, I'm in Ashford too. I've just been allocated a VERY overgrown one on the Jemmet Road site. It might be worth calling the allotments officer to maybe give her a nudge - she was very helpful when I spoke to her. Also, if you go round some of the sites, there are phone numbers of the site reps on some of the signs on various sites - it might be worth ringing that number instead of the council number in case there any people considering giving up their plots or thinking of plot sharing. Often the site reps know stuff like that before the council officer does.

[Cloud]

janto I have PM'd you.I am intrested.

[Tori]

OOh thanks for the advice novice. I'll get investigating.

[allotmenteer ashford]

Rooter, you're luckier than you know. There is a blocked culvert behind where you are, and currently all the rain that falls on several streets is running across William Road allotments like a stream. We are flooded, over the tops of wellies in places - the council thought we were exaggerating and/or getting worked up over nothing, told us "It only does it when there's a flash flood". It's been steadily getting worse over the past few years. Fortunately a nice man from a different department is now on the case, (especially as the water is all ending up in the back garden of a nice old lady on William Road) and we hope Southern Water will finally fix it.

There are quite a lot of allotments in Ashford which are neglected and unused - the tenants should really, in all fairness, be evicted but they can be very dog-in-the-manger about land they're not actually using. When plots do come up, Ashford are now splitting them into 2 or 3 so no-one ever gets the size plot they used to. This is, of course, nothing less than rationing. There are about 500 plots in the borough and 280 on the waiting list, so it's clear that even splitting the plots up won't clear the backlog. There are several old sites which are locked up and unused and it would be very sensible to get these brought back into use. I suspect the situation is the same in Canterbury. We have just set up a new website Ashford Allotments - home and hope to address some of these issues soon. If you want to see the website type or copy the address to your address bar as Google isn't picking it up very well yet. We welcome all feedback and suggestions

[Thelma Sanders]

The waiting list for Orion Way in willesborough is about 2 years, and they seem to change hands fairly quickly now there is a new allotments officer, and there are more inspections per year.

[allotmenteer ashford]

Tori, I'm in Ashford too. I've just been allocated a VERY overgrown one on the Jemmet Road site. It might be worth calling the allotments officer to maybe give her a nudge - she was very helpful when I spoke to her. Also, if you go round some of the sites, there are phone numbers of the site reps on some of the signs on various sites - it might be worth ringing that number instead of the council number in case there any people considering giving up their plots or thinking of plot sharing. Often the site reps know stuff like that before the council officer does.

We have had a lot of problems with the noticeboards which are clearly not fir for outdoor use. If you want to know who your site rep is there is a list on the Ashford Allotments (allomenters, not council, website) at forum - Ashford Allotments. It doesn't have the phone numbers on for reasons of probity, but messages can be forwarded via the website 'contact' form and we will ask the rep to ring you if need be.

[allotmenteer ashford]

Early fruiter, we want some nice photos of Orion Way for the Ashford Allotments website. Do you take a good photo? If so, we'd love to use yours on the website. As you'll see if you go there orionway - Ashford Allotments we have nothing up on Orion way yet. Tell us about the site by emailing us, with photos if poss! Pretty please?