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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 12, 2021

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask the Chief Executive to specify where all allotments and community gardens are located throughout the county and to outline contact details for those interested in becoming members. To ask whether the Chief Executive has considered providing more public land for community gardens and allotments on public land, particularly waste land and laneways and would the Chief Executive care to make a statement on the matter.

REPLY:

There are currently 424 allotments in our administrative area spread across four (4) locations, two (2) North of the N7 and two (2) South. See table below, information at 31st January 2021;

Location	No. of allotments	No. on waiting list	No. of Vacant plots
Corkagh Park	39	58	1
Friarstown	298	96	2
Mill Lane	74	30	1
Tymon Park	13	54	1

There are a total of 238 on the waiting lists (some are on multiple lists).  Vacant plots will be offered to the next person on the waiting list.

A full review of the Council's Allotments Policy was initiated at the Environment, Water and Climate Change SPC on 16th February 2021.  As part of this review, capacity and supply & demand will be examined. A full report with recommendations will be brought back to the SPC in due course. 

Two Community Gardens were established to provide a space for people at risk of exclusion, each with a particular focus people with disabilities and those experiencing long term unemployment. They are a vulnerable group of people who are on the high risk scale for health issues.

These Gardens are currently in the process of being relocated.