Common Ground’s
Rules for Local Distinctiveness

Liverpool
Debating the need for wildlife areas on allotments.

A wooded area representing about 5% of an allotment site in Liverpool is due to be returned to allotment use by the association. Catherine McMahon and Philip Battle explain: “An allotment, a place to relax and be at one with nature with the added benefit of growing your own fruit and veg! We are far from that at the moment as a division is evolving within our allotment site in Liverpool. A number of us wanting to save a valuable small woodland copse, over 30 years old and home to an abundance of wildlife. This area amounts to two and a half plots out of 50 which our committee wants to reclaim as allotment land. Given the biodiversity action plans that are in place all over the country, we would like to know what others think- is allotment land purely for growing veg or should we be setting aside wildlife areas on allotments? Don't we have a duty as allotment holders to work with nature and not against it?!”

See the web-site : www.merseyworld.com/interfest/TinyTrees.html

Contact Catherine McMahon and Philip Battle at INTERFEST [at] postmaster.co.uk