Save our garden!

Categories: glasgow

Date: 12 February 2007 20:17:59

I've posted these photos here before (I took them last September), they're of the little community garden near where I live where I take my veg peelings and whatnot to be composted. I went there earlier today as I had a full compost bin, and the guys who work for GREAT who created and maintain the garden for the community were in the shed so I stopped for a quick chat. I'd noticed the last few times that I've been to the garden that the beds have been gradually removed, so the garden is now basically a pile of mud, and I assumed that they had dismantled it so that it could be rebuilt as part of their work (they do a lot of training of volunteers and local unemployed youths in gardening skills etc). Actually it turns out that there are some plans to build new housing on the site, and they'd had to dig up the garden so that the developers could get their gear in to drill holes and check that the land was suitable for building on. There's apparently a petition to sign, but it's not online and the shop which they said had a copy didn't know what I was talking about, so I can feel a letter to the local MP, MSPs and councillors coming on. I'm so upset. The guys did say they will be rebuilding the garden - it was looking so lovely last year, I really hope they're able to. What is wrong with these bloody bureaucrats?