Scotland: Edinburgh neighbourhood fruit and veg garden plans revived after pandemic delays

The neighbourhood garden will have allotments, a tool shed and even a rainwater harvesting system for locals to use.

By Donald Turvill
Edinburgh Live
23 Mar 2023

Excerpt:

The long-awaited project to transform a play area in Slateford into allotments for locals could get going later this year, after official plans were lodged with the council.

Edible Estates earmarked the plot, which is within a ring of tenements between Hutchison Medway and Hutchison Avenue, for its latest community garden in 2019. Plans were derailed by Covid lockdowns but revived in January.

If given the go ahead, Hutchison Neighbourhood Garden would provide space for “up to 50 growers” with a tool shed, rainwater harvesting system and a community orchard around the perimeter of the garden also planned.

The charity works with the local authority and other organisations to set-up community growing spaces in social housing estates across the city, having already launched neighbourhood gardens in Craigmillar, Lochend, Leith, Clovenstone and the Calders.

It said the Hutchison site was “particularly well suited” for the initiative “due to its size, location, solar aspect, and being over seen by a ring of tenements”.

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