Allotment Waiting List Data

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Dear Lesley

Please find attached the information you have requested under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.
1)         How many allotment sites are there in North Lincolnshire for
which the Council has access to waiting list data?

        NLC response:        We have five allotments sites in North
Lincolnshire

2)         What is the total number of plots on each of these individual
sites? 

        Buckingham Avenue - 91
        Healey Road - 46
        Somervell Road - 30
        Westcliff - 92
        Wheatfields - 152

3)         What is the total number of people on waiting lists broken down
for these individual sites?

        Buckingham Avenue - 34
        Healey Road - 13
        Somervell Road - 24
        Westcliff - 42
        Wheatfields - 91

4)         Are any of these waiting lists closed to further applications?

        NLC response:        No

5)         How many new council allotment sites were brought into use in
2010? Please give:
   
       a) number of new sites
       b) names of new sites
       c) total area of new land in hectares
       d) total number of new plots

        NLC response:        There were not any new sites brought into use
in 2010.
     
6)         Do the council have any future plans to introduce any new sites
to reduce the number on the waiting list?

        NLC response:        No

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Dear Lesley

Further to your query regarding the Somervell Road allotments I can
confirm the following:

1.        The site is occupied by allotment members.
2.        The figure of 511 on our website was incorrect and is currently
being updated.  The figure should have stated 411.

With regards to the 'work in progress', hopefully the following will
provide some clarification:

Former Horticultural Nursery off Somervell Rd 
We are in the process of creating a public park on the majority of this
former nursery site.  

We also obtained outline planning permission for 3 housing plots (planning
ref PA/2010/0379) on part of this site, at the entrance. We have now sold
the housing land and the purchaser has obtained full planning
permission for housing (ref PA/2011/1020) on that part of the site. The
gate to this former horticultural nursery site has a sign on it, which
says 'Keep out - Works in progress'. None of this site has ever been used
as allotments.

 Somervell Rd Allotments

These allotments are adjacent to the former nursery site.

In 2006 the council obtained consent from the Secretary of State to
sell 4.28 acres of the allotments. We obtained outline planning permission
for housing on the 4.28 acres in 2008 and have recently renewed that
permission (ref PA/2011/1048). This leaves approx 2.5 acres of operational
allotments that are still in use.

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Julie MacKinnon
Freedom of Information Co ordinator
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