Allotments in the High West Jesmond area
The allotments in the High West Jesmond area are listed below.
Please note that HWJRA does not own, manage or operate allotments.
To apply for an allotment or to find out more about the allotments then please visit the separate Newcastle Allotments Working Group website which is administered by Newcastle City Council.
The allotments are separate from HWJRA and any applications for an allotment or enquiries regarding allotments should be addressed to the relevant allotment.
Allotment sites are self-managed. Each site is run by an Allotment Association who elect a Committee to oversee the day to day running of their allotment site, and also to maintain their own waiting list and sublet plots direct.
To apply for an allotment or to find out more about the allotments then please visit the separate Newcastle Allotments Working Group website which is administered by Newcastle City Council.
Newcastle Allotment Working Group (NAWG)
To apply for an allotment or to find out more about the allotments then please visit the separate Newcastle Allotments Working Group website which is administered by Newcastle City Council.
High West Jesmond has three seperate allotment sites at:
- Little Moor Allotments
- Triangle Allotments
- High West Jesmond Allotments
You can find more details about allotments on the Newcastle Allotments Working Group website which is adminsitered by Newcastle City Council.
You can also read a short history of allotments in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Allotments in Newcastle
There are around 3,000 allotment plots in Newcastle across 62 sites.
You can download a map of allotment sites in Newcastle (produced by Newcastle City Council in September 2005).
If you’d like to grow your own fruit and vegetables, or simply want the enjoyment of growing your own flowers, you may want to consider an allotment.
There are lots of benefits to renting an allotment. You could:
- Get more exercise.
- Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables.
- Meet new friends.
- Escape from life’s pressures.
- Share your knowledge with others.
If you’re a beginner, many sites offer half-size plots for first time gardeners.
Alternatively, you could get together with friends to share the work.
Other gardeners on site will be delighted to share their knowledge and experience with you.
Apply for an allotment
Allotment sites are self-managed. Each site is run by an Allotment Association who elect a Committee to oversee the day to day running of their allotment site, and also to maintain their own waiting list and sublet plots direct.
To apply for an allotment or to find out more about the allotments then please visit the separate Newcastle Allotments Working Group website which is administered by Newcastle City Council.
Newcastle’s vision for allotments
The Newcastle Allotments Working Group and Newcastle City Council agreed a Newcastle Allotments Strategy in 2010. As part of this strategy the vision for Newcastle’s allotments was defined:
Allotments vision
“Our vision is the establishment in Newcastle upon Tyne of the adequate availability of easily accessible allotments with high quality amenities; in pursuance of excellence in the production and showing of vegetables, fruit and flowers via allotment gardening and driven by the current pioneering system of devolved management.
We support the allotment tradition of innovative individualism, but in conjunction with the provision of a socially inclusive sense of community and the facilitation of community projects. We believe that allotment gardening should be environmentally concerned, sustainable and wild-life friendly.”
Allotments strategy
- To recognise the multiple benefits of allotments for Newcastle residents, and for the City as a whole in terms of its future development guided by the Sustainable Communities Strategy, the Sustainable Cities Index and its WHO status as a Healthy City.
- To safeguard existing allotment provision and to increase allotment provision in Newcastle in line with known demand and with regard to future demand.
- To continue to improve the quality of allotment facilities for allotment holders in Newcastle and to continue to improve the quality ofNewcastle’s innovative devolved allotment management.
- To recognise and promote the importance of allotments inenvironmental protection and sustainability, especially in relation tofuture threats of high food cost, fuel scarcity and climate change.
- To recognise the importance of biodiversity and to augment the role of
allotments in preserving and enhancing biodiversity.