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eng
dataset
Dataset
Customer Contact Center
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
GIS Data Management Officer
02085475002
Guildhall 2
High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1EU
United Kingdom
inspire@kingston.gov.uk
https://www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200232/contact_us
pointOfContact
2018-05-01T14:17:32
ISO 19115 (UK GEMINI)
1.0 (2.2)
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Allotments In The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Allotments
Allotment Gardens
2014-10-23
revision
RBK_ALLT
unknown
An allotment garden often called simply an allotment is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families. Such parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people. A local authority is required to maintain an "adequate provision" of land, usually a large allotment field which can then be subdivided into allotment gardens for individual residents at a low rent. This measure was desperately needed thanks to the rapid industrialisation of the country and the lack of a welfare state. In 1908 the Small Holdings and Allotments Act came into force, placing a duty on local authorities to provide sufficient allotments, according to demand. However it wasn’t until the end of the First World War that land was made available to all, primarily as a way of assisting returning service men (Land Settlement Facilities Act 1919) instead of just the labouring poor. The rights of allotment holders were strengthened through the Allotments Acts of 1922, but the most important change can be found in the Allotments Act of 1925 which established statutory allotments which local authorities could not sell off or covert without Ministerial consent, known as Section 8 Orders. Further legislation has been listed over the intervening years which have affected allotments, the latest of which is the Localism Act 2011. This data shows the location of allotments within The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. These are identified as part of open space infrastructure.
Customer Contact Center
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
GIS Data Management Officer
02085475002
Guildhall 2
High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1EU
United Kingdom
inspire@kingston.gov.uk
https://www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200232/contact_us
pointOfContact
asNeeded
land_allotment
land_use
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
2010-01-13
revision
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
Allotments
Local development plan
Planning (town and country)
Agenda 21 implementation
Core Strategy
otherRestrictions
You are free to use any information supplied to you for your own non-commercial purposes. However re-use, of the information or issuing copies to the public will require the permission of The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.
This data is made freely available to other authorities under PSMA licensing conditions or to the public for non-commercial use only under Public Sector End Licence - INSPIRE.
1250
eng
environment
farming
location
-0.33
-0.24
51.32
51.43
www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200272/environment/734/allotments
https://maps.kingston.gov.uk/maps/MapPage.aspx?map=ldf
ArcGIS
unknown
https://od-rbk.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/allotments-inspire
Kingston upon Thames open data site
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dataset
This data has been initially captured by the GIS team from 1:1250 OS Landline data and subsequently updated to the recent OS Mastermap in 2012.