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Campaign calls for London-wide 'Right to Grow' on unused public land
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Campaign calls for London-wide 'Right to Grow' on unused public land
Campaigners have urged the Greater London Authority to adopt a standardized framework allowing communities to turn unused public land into food gardens.
- Several councils, including Hounslow, Southwark and Hackney, have already introduced Right to Grow policies.
- A new report from the London People's Assembly on Food, Nature and the Right to Grow outlines 12 demands for the capital by 2035.
- Kalpana Arias, a campaigner, said the GLA should implement Right to Grow within its food and housing policies to reduce red tape.
- Deputy mayor Mete Coban said increasing access to green space was a matter of social and environmental justice.
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