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Demand an allotment
• COUNCILLORS Katie Dawson and Ruth Polling are obviously not aware that the council is legally obliged to provide a green space to grow vegetables to a group of six people or more (Fancy growing some veg? Try calling back in 2088! September 19).
So, all they have to do is to recruit a few more people and demand an allotment from Islington Council.
PL
N1
(Name and address supplied)
• ST Luke’s Community Centre has reacted to the shortage of allotment spaces in Islington by setting aside land for mini-allotments this year.
With EC1 New Deal’s added help, this has given more than 20 local people of all ages and abilities the space to grow their own vegetables for the first time.
It combines the benefits of a healthy outdoor pursuit with fresh, locally grown veg, and we have been recognised by London in Bloom and Islington in Bloom for our efforts.
It is amazing how much food a square metre patch of ground can produce, and we fully support the creation of more allotment space in the borough.
Martyn Craddock
Chief executive, St Luke’s Trust
Orwellian options
q The latest “consultation” regarding the Sobell Centre’s future is a cynical lesson in Orwellian speak.
How can this controversial plan (the destruction of an iconic site on precious green space) be called a consultation when all four options for the Sobell included its destruction?
I agree with Gary Heather, chairman of Islington Trades Council, that it does smell “of gerrymandering tactics” (Sobell plan gets final approval from Lib Dems, September 12). These flats – sorry, apartments – which increasingly look like a “done deal” by the council will not be built for local people and their families, who cannot afford “affordable housing”, but for post-yuppies coming into the area who they think will vote for them.
JACK COURTNEY O'CONNOR
Thane Villas, N7
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