Allotments In The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Allotments
Allotment Gardens
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.
dataset
https://od-rbk.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/a423144e0dbd4a1286a7a0d105452454_0
name: Kingston upon Thames open data site
function: download
name: Kingston upon Thames WFS Service
function: download
RBK_ALLT
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eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200272/environment/734/allotments https://maps.kingston.gov.uk/maps/MapPage.aspx?map=ldf
environment
farming
location
land_allotment
land_use
revision
2010-01-13
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
publication
2008-06-01
Allotments
Local development plan
Planning (town and country)
Agenda 21 implementation
Core Strategy
-0.33
-0.24
51.43
51.32
revision
2014-10-23
asNeeded
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.
ArcGIS
unknown
licence
GIS Data Management Officer
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Guildhall 2 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1EU
United Kingdom
02085475002
https://www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200232/contact_us
pointOfContact
GIS Data Management Officer
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Guildhall 2 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1EU
United Kingdom
02085475002
https://www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200232/contact_us
pointOfContact
2020-01-22T08:58:49