The newly established Allotments Forum meets twice a year, and is a public event to which all the city’s allotment tenants, applicants on the waiting list and councillors are invited.

The next (second) Allotments Forum will be held in the Brunswick room, Guildhall, on Wednesday 25th April at 6pm.

The minutes of the Forum held in November 2011, which contain the terms of reference, can be downloaded from www.banes-allotments.org.uk/membership.

There is a long waiting list for allotments at the canal gardens site in Bathwick. However, in recent months new tenants have taken on the challenge of five vacant plots after lobbying by fellow allotment holders and local councillor Nicholas Coombes.