Sustainability Committee

The Assembly’s Sustainability Committee is conducting an inquiry into Allotment Provision in Wales.

The terms of reference for the inquiry are:

To explore ways the Welsh Government can support and provide opportunities for the increasing interest in allotment and community gardening, and to examine ways these activities can provide wider benefits.

The inquiry will consider the following:

1.The demand for allotment sites in Wales and availability of sites (public and private);

2.The barriers/constraints (for users and providers);

3.Innovative approaches to the provision of land for allotments;

4.Evidence of the wider benefits allotment gardening can bring and opportunities for allotment holder (e.g. health, environmental, community, bringing products to the marketplace,);

5.The need for and suggested areas of intervention from the Welsh Government.

The Committee would like to hear from as many people as possible about their views on the points above to help understand the effectiveness of Welsh Government initiatives in this area.

Please submit any written evidence by 1 April 2010, to Meriel Singleton at:

Sustainability.comm@Wales.gsi.gov.uk

or

Sustainability Committee
National Assembly for Wales
Ty Hwyel
Cardiff Bay
CF99 1NA

Further information about the Committee’s inquiry can be found on our website at:

http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-committees/bus-committees-third-assem/bus-committees-third-sc-home.htm

Yours sincerely,

Mike German
Chair, Sustainability Committee