Dawlish Discussion

Garden too big for you now perhaps? or maybe you are too busy to have time to attend to it.

Whatever the reason(s) if you have a garden that you can no longer manage, Dawlish Transition may have an answer to your problem in that it is looking for gardens like yours so that others, who have no gardens, can look after them for you and produce food in them.  

If you are interested in this garden share scheme please contact Dawlish Transition for a copy of a sample agreement so that you can see how the scheme works.

email: dawlishtransition@gmail.com

http://dawlishtransition.blogspot.co.uk/p/aims.html     

Looked at this some time ago - http://www.landshare.net.  It seems a great idea if you can match surplus land with people who are keen to produce, especially if there is a long waiting list for allotments.  As a land owner you need to be careful about legal implications of public access, insurance, liability etc.  As a grower you need to make sure that you do have sufficient access over sufficient time for the growing and harvesting of produce.  Nothing that can't be overcome but just needs a little care when setting up.

The demand for allotments in Dawlish exceeds supply. @ last month this was the Dawlish demand/supply allotment situation:

Dawlish presently has 27 plots at Brown’s Brook for which there is a waiting list of 96 persons (source: Dawlish Town Council) and 12 plots at Lanhearn with 12 people on the waiting list. The waiting list for the Lanhearn plots is presently closed. (source: Teignbridge District Council). Furthermore on the TDC allotment website it is pointed out that with regard to Lanhearn: “ plots have waiting times running approximately 2-3 years”. 

I'm assuming that you want the use of land for free? We're setting up a project but wouldn't be able to provide for nothing as we need to fund the rest of the project. Let me know how it all works Lynne.

Just to help an average plot is 250 sq m 16 of these to an acre

Apparently most people would be happy with 125 sq m

Reasonable costs seem to be approx £25 for larger £15 for the smaller plus £10 for water.

I would look into the subject of business rates, if you charge you may incur them.