Green urban spaces
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In Birmingham during the 1960s and 1970s, allotments continued to be important green spaces and were a vital sustainable response to intensive urban development across the city. Allotments provided one answer to the lack of gardening space in new high rise developments in areas such as Castle Vale towards the north of the city.
Thorpe’s committee report found that over a quarter of Birmingham flat-dwellers wanted a garden of their own but were also put off by the squalid image of allotments. The report recommended that occupiers should convert their plots into chalet gardens with a summerhouse as a retreat from the concrete and brick world of flat dwelling.
Location: Castle Vale, Recreation and Community Services, box 16/1.
