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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide more land for allotments for people to grow their own vegetables. More details
Submitted by Naomi Phillips – Deadline to sign up by: 20 May 2007 – Signatures: 1,173
This will do the following:
1. Allow people to save money.
2. Provide an area for abundant wildlife.
3. Help to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
4. Help to cut the amount of carbon dioxide in the world's atmosphere: people grow their own food instead of buying it all thus reducing 'air miles' (and shipping and lorry pollution).
5. Provide people with a community group to belong to and enjoy.
6. Provide people with a space to exercise while doing something worthwhile - it will benefit them in two different ways at the same time.
There simply aren't enough allotments around. I belong to one, half of which has just been taken over by the golf course next door, halving the allotments while only increasing the golf course by about 3%. I believe there is a waiting list of people desperate to obtain a plot, but there simply isn't enough land.
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Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.