March 2024 Waiting List & Vacant Plot Update

 

This is a snapshot in time based on information provided by idverde as of the second week in March 2024 for the Waiting List and Vacant plots in the London Borough of Sutton, and was out of date moments after the information was provided. This year a record amount of people gave up their allotments.  

Site reps & committees on Belmont, Cheam Court, Green Wrythe Lane, Roundshaw, Stanley Road, Westmead Road, & Wrights Row Allotments have plans to show all the vacant plots to people on the waiting lists that have been contacted and have shown an interest in the next couple of weeks. So hopefully by the next gardening Group meeting these allotments will be fully tenanted.

Jane our idverde allotment officer, is also contacting people on the waiting list for all the other allotment sites and is still finding that many people that jumped on the waiting list during the pandemic are no longer interested in having a plot, because the pandemic is over and they don't have the time or need somewhere they were allowed to visit during the pandemic anymore. 

On some sites where the site rep is ill or there isn't a site rep Jane is meeting prospective tenants and showing them the plots. 

Jane is chasing the Council for a date for the next Gardening Group meeting and for the promised information that has not been forthcoming from the London Borough of Sutton, since the last one in May last year.