| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The 2018 Conservative Manifesto for Hounslow | |
| Posted by: | Joseph Gerald Bourke | |
| Date/Time: | 27/04/18 18:58:00 |
| We will be campaigning on South Street tomorrow from 10am to 2pm. It would be nice to put a face to some of the posters here we have not previously met and get some signatures for our petition. As most here will know, Northumberland Estates has appealed the rejection of their application to build 127 housing units on the Park Road Allotments Gardens and this will now be the subject of a public inquiry undertaken by the planning inspectorate https://hounslowlibdems.org.uk/en/article/2018/1263738/hounslow-borough-s-allotments Hounslow Liberal Democrats will be running a petition tomorrow calling on the London Borough of Hounslow to comply with its statutory obligation to provide adequate allotment plots in the borough and to this end, to investigate the feasibility of an application for compulsory hiring of the Park Road Allotment Gardens Isleworth, in accordance with the provisions of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908. The council have the power if they wish to exercise it under s.39 of the 1908 Act together with Schedule Part II of the 1908 Act, Provisions for Compulsory Hiring of Land by Councils. These parts of the 1908 Act are still extant. Hounslow Council is a competent authority to exercise these powers under the Act by virtue of being a borough council. The Smallholdings Allotment (compulsory Hiring) Regulations 1936 also apply; they deal with the procedures involved in a Council compulsorily hiring the land for allotments. If you cannot make tomorrow, you will find us outside the Bridgelink centre, Summerwood Road on the Ivybridge estate on Sunday from 12noon to 2pm. Joe Bourke, Robert Thorpe, Henna Ashgar, Liberal Democrat candidates for Isleworth Ward. |