A House of Commons Library Briefing Paper on plastic waste in the UK, including statistics on plastic waste and information on UK Government and devolved Government plans and ambitions to reduce avoidable plastic waste and examples of voluntary initiatives from the plastics industry, environmental groups and retailers.
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Allotments (202 KB, PDF)
• This note describes the law on allotments, including some issues that frequently arise. The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Ltd has a very useful website and is the main centre of allotment expertise.
• The law on allotments appears in several Acts of Parliament, some more than a century old.
• The Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908 imposed a duty on councils – which remains in force – to provide allotments if six or more people say that they want them. However, there is no time limit and many people would have to wait decades to obtain an allotment.
• Building on statutory allotment land is only allowed when the allotment holders are offered alternative sites.
• Despite these controls, many people have asked for the provision of more allotments to satisfy demand.
• The Government argues that the neighbourhood planning regime, for which the Localism Act makes provision, could lead to many new allotments.
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Allotments (202 KB, PDF)
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