Community Gardens Ireland are a voluntary, independent, inclusive group that works with all agencies and groups that promote environmental awareness and support community gardening and food growing in all parts of the island of Ireland. In recent years we have been heavily advocating for an improvement in legislation and policies for allotments and community gardens. In 2021 […]

Community Gardens Ireland was disappointed to discover that community gardens have again been left out of the new Planning and Development Bill 2023 which was published by the Government this week. The role of Local Authorities in the reserving of land for allotments is outlined under current legislation, the Planning and Development Act 2010. Community […]

Justyna Traore, Committee Member of Community Gardens Ireland, has been instrumental in setting up new community growing spaces in Waterford City. When speaking before about the impact Top of the City Community Garden has had in her local community in Waterford City, she said the following: “You could see it during Covid, people found peace, […]

Last month, Greenpeace published a brilliant video which demonstrated the amount of people on a waiting list for an allotment in the UK. Over 174,000 people are on a waiting list for an allotment in the UK, which is just under the population of the cities Limerick and Galway combined. For England, there is a […]

The Climate Action Plans for each local authorities are under review at present – these will be the plans used for climate action locally the next 5 years. This is incredibly important to contribute to. Community Gardens Ireland have performed a review of previous climate action plans / adaptations strategies and have found gaps in […]