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Woodend Allotments

Please note: Woodend Allotments Extension and BBQ will be held at the new allotments at the Woodend Barn on Sunday 29th August 2010, 12 till 4pm.  All are welcome.

WAA helped to create Woodend Allotments as an independent community group in 2006.  Leys Estate generously agreed to lease a field behind the Barn and planning permission was obtained from Aberdeenshire Council in early 2007.  Funds were raised to pay for deer and rabbit fencing and for a communal shed / summerhouse. The allotments opened in April 2007 and within two months were fully subscribed.  

By the summer of 2009, Woodend Allotments had a waiting list of over thirty people, so we approached Leys Estate to obtain another field for an extension of the allotments to the North of the existing field.  Leys Estate kindly agreed and funding to fence the site and prepare the ground was obtained from the Climate Challenge Fund in November 2009.  Planning permission for 45 new plots was obtained in February 2010 and the new plots opened in April 2010.  By the end of July, all of the new plots had been taken.  There are currently 112 plot holders, plus the primary school and three community groups.

If you are interested in being on the waiting list for an allotment, please contact Richard Salway

 

Marking out the field Ploughed in preparation  Getting the tatties in

First plots Success with the shed June 08

swallow nestAugust 08 admiring the peas

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