Minutes & Reports

Action for New Allotments – Initial Meeting of GAF Members & Glasgow City Council – 27 October.docx

The Community Empowerment Act 2015

• which includes a duty on local authorities to provide allotments, and to act if the waiting list exceeds 50% of the total number of allotment spaces owned by the council – see Section 112

The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019

• which includes a duty on local authorities to provide an Open Space Strategy ‘to set out a strategic framework of the planning authority’s policies and proposals as to the development, maintenance and use of green infrastructure in their district‘ – see Section 3

Glasgow City Council’s Draft Food Growing Strategy

• which the Council were required to write as a result of the Act above, and which includes a plan to develop new allotment sites over the next 5 years – see page 28

Glasgow City Council’s Open Space Strategy, adopted Feb 2020

• which has overlap with the plans for new allotment spaces mentioned in the draft Food Growing Strategy, mentioned above