Hundreds of new plots to serve allotment boom
Manchester Evening News|December 26, 2023
THE UK saw an allotment boom during the pandemic, as thousands of people signed up for their own plot.
DAMON WILKINSON
Hundreds of new plots to serve allotment boom

And with the cost-of-living crisis making growing your own food an attractive option, the trend is not showing any signs of slowing down.

In Rochdale, space is so hard to come by it can take up to nine years to get an allotment and there's more than 1,500 people on the waiting list. But the first new allotment in 50 years has opened there as part of a bid to double the number of plots in the borough.

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