Identification

Title

Allotments In The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Alternative title(s)

Allotments

Allotment Gardens

Abstract

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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://od-rbk.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/a423144e0dbd4a1286a7a0d105452454_0

name: Kingston upon Thames open data site

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

RBK_ALLT

codeSpace

unknown

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Additional information source

www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200272/environment/734/allotments https://maps.kingston.gov.uk/maps/MapPage.aspx?map=ldf

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

farming

location

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

land_allotment

land_use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Allotments

Local development plan

Planning (town and country)

Agenda 21 implementation

Core Strategy

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-0.33

East bounding longitude

-0.24

North bounding latitude

51.43

South bounding latitude

51.32

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-23

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ArcGIS

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Data Management Officer

organisation name

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

full postal address

Guildhall 2 High Street

Kingston upon Thames

KT1 1EU

United Kingdom

telephone number

02085475002

email address

inspire@kingston.gov.uk

web address

https://www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200232/contact_us

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

GIS Data Management Officer

organisation name

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

full postal address

Guildhall 2 High Street

Kingston upon Thames

KT1 1EU

United Kingdom

telephone number

02085475002

email address

inspire@kingston.gov.uk

web address

https://www.kingston.gov.uk/info/200232/contact_us

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-06-20T14:47:52

Metadata language

eng