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‘You’d get a plot quicker in Roselawn Cemetery than an allotment’

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Demand for allotments in Belfast is outweighing availability, with almost 1,000 keen gardeners on the waiting list for a plot.

On the most recent count, there were 964 people on the waiting list for the city’s 281 plots, according to a report submitted to a Belfast City Council committee.

The longest waiting list is at Annadale Embankment and Tom Haire, who chairs its allotment group, said it had been an “ongoing problem” for a number of years.

The report suggests a range of options to improve the management of the waiting list.

Belfast City Council said there was no budget to increase the number of allotments, but it was exploring options “to improve management of the waiting list”.

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