Jeremy Corbin has attacked his former labor colleague Angela Rener to sign the sale of eight allocation since the general election.
330,000 allocation of UK, small, hired plots of land where residents can grow their own fruits and vegetables, and are protected from development or sales under the allocation Act 1925, except the minister’s sign-off.
A government spokesman said that there were strict criteria for the sale of allocation, which should only be made where they are “clearly necessary”.
Telegraph writingKeen allocator Corbin excluded “the joy of the land of excavation for potatoes” and warned that the sales made “the future of these precious places even more dangerous”.
Former labor party leader who has Recently a nomination has been launched so far The rival party, regularly talked about his love for growing crops in its North London plot, where his favorite vegetable marrow is.
In his letter to the Telegraph, the Isington North MP determined the history behind the allocation, which began when landlords attached the common land in the Middle Ages.
The right to reach the common land for growing and grazing was an important demand for excavators during the British Civil War, saying that the attachment acts claim that “one of the most abuses of power by Parliament” was “.
Due to reaching the ground, the rural poor “are facing starvation” and “forced to migrate in industrial cities like” Birmingham “, he writes,” allotment, then, was out of opposition to the opposition of the enclosures and privatization of common land.
Statistics from the National Allotment Association show that the allocation is still important for many people, there is no access to a garden with a population of one-eight, which is growing up to one-five in London.
Around 100,000 are currently on the waiting list for allocation, some waiting decades for a plot.
Rener’s decision to allow eight allocation to be sold by the council was revealed in one Parliamentary answer Last month, sites in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Kent, Hertfordshire and West Sussex.
Developers plan to build new houses on sites which are currently community allocation in Derbyshire, Reversed And west Sussex.
Corbin said in his letter, “Of course, there is a dire need of social housing, but we do not need to sacrifice these important green locations to make it.”
“We can construct on pre-industrial land and handle empty assets. Nevertheless, we must ensure that social housing is accompanied by community gardens and enough growing spaces.
“Is this government going to put a cold, wet February Sunday afternoon to put a nail in the coffin of excavation for potatoes?
“The fight for the grass roots continues!”
Information has been made for information about how many allocation have been settled to the Ministry of Angela Rener for Housing Community and Local Government (MHCLG).
A spokesman said that the councils should only sell allocation “where it is clearly necessary and provides value for money”.
He said: “We know how important allocation to communities is, and that is why there are strict criteria to save them, as well as school playgrounds.”
But the conservatives stated that the policy was “a kick in the teeth for the local people who did not have access to their own gardens” and called the government to protect green places more.
