Land Now Available for Allotments

We are now in the process of aquiring land for allotments within Welshpool, if you are interested in wanting an allotment please contact us with your name and contact details.

Would you like to play a part in the future development of the allotment association by becoming a member of the committee? You may be wondering and asking what does it involve? The time commitment is not great.
To give you a snapshot view - one meeting per month lasting one hour approximately, with an addtional couple of hours during the month as we set up the allotments and seeking funding for our requirements. We are looking for a further 6 people to play an active part on our committee. In fairness all the hardwork has been done searching for a site and securing a site has taken alot of time, energy and patience during the past 7 years and we now need a new set of members to join the committee.  

We welcome your participation, feel free to email your interest and help us to become a successful community of like minded people working to make a vibrant allotment association.

Allotments Arrive in the centre of Welshpool

Allotments Arrive in the Centre of Welshpool! After a long haul to find a suitable site within walking distant for all in Welshpool our patience has finally paid off. The new site is expected to be available by the end of April. Currently legal documents are being drawn up between the Allotment Association and the landlords.
We need anyone who has been on our waiting list to re-apply because we need a fully updated list of who would be interested in having an allotment. For those who are looking but had not been on a previous list you too can apply. Simply email to us your name & contact details and we will be in touch soon.

We have now secured allotments within the centre of Welshpool. We are asking all previous people who added their names to the original list to re-submit your interest. For those who wish to apply for an allotment please email your name and contact details through the blog site and we will be in touch with you shortly.

Winter Fair

We'll be having a fundraising stall at the Winter Fair on Saturday 4th December at the Assembly Rooms above the Town Hall. Mince pies, chutneys and Christmas decorations for sale. See you there!

Good news everyone!

At the recent full Town Council meeting the proposed Golfa site was REJECTED!! We feel that this was the right decision. Welshpool Allotment Association are now looking forward to working with the Town Council and Powys County Council in securing a suitable site.

Welshpool Town Council propose allotment site.

As recently published in The County Times, the Town Council propose that the site offered by Golfa Farm should be the site for allotments in Welshpool. The landowner requires a rent of £2/sqm. The national average for allotments is 13p - 35p/sqm. The Town Council will subsidise this at £1.50/sqm with allotment holders paying 50p/sqm. Welshpool Allotment Association consider that this is hugely expensive to the allotment holder and the tax payer, with the only winner to be the landowner. The maximum size of a plot will be 120m, only half of a full sized plot as stated in the Allotment Act. Therefore the Town Council will not be fulfilling this legal requirement. The size of an allotment is legally around 250sqm which is big enough to grow food to support a family of four. The Town Council are not providing this.

Welshpool Allotment Association have turned down this site as it is not a suitable for numerous reasons besides the expense. It is over a mile out of town along a busy main road. The only way to access the site would be by car, which is unacceptable to us as its hardly the 'green' approach and many people do not have a car available to them. The site has an 'agricultural' access point onto the busy trunk road. Not ideal to pull out onto. The land is also only available for 11 months of the year which is unacceptable to WAA.

We have informed our members prior to the Town Council proposing this site, that if they want to take up a plot at this site then they can approach the landowner independently.

Regretfully Welshpool Town Council will not pursue any other sites within the town. This is unacceptable to Welshpool Allotment Association as there are other sites to consider and there is still the Burgess Land!! It's a shame the Town Council are not embracing the idea of a suitable well organised allotment site within the town as it could be such an asset, with a wide range of people and community groups using it, working together. An ideal opportunity to restore 'Pride in Welshpool'. They really are missing a trick here.

If you have any thoughts on this matter then please post a comment.