238 Provision of Allotments by Parish Councils, [june, 



Part II. of the Report of the Land Division* for the year 

 1910 deals with the proceedings of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries under the Acts relating to 

 Provision of Allot- Allotments. Universities and College 

 ments by Parish and T . , r « T , r 



J n Estates, Glebe Lands, Improvement of 



other Councils. ' r 



Lands, Settled Land and Agricultural 



Holdings. Part I., which has been already issued, dealt with 

 the proceedings under the Small Holdings Act. 



In accordance with Section 59 of the Small Holdings and 

 Allotments Act, 1908, the Board have called for returns of 

 the proceedings of every Town Council, Urban District 

 Council, and Parish Council in England and Wales in relation 

 to allotments during the year 1910, and the opportunity has 

 been taken to obtain information as to the total quantity of 

 land which is held by the various Councils for allotments, and 

 the number of tenants to whom it is let. 



The total number of allotment authorities under the Act is 

 over 8,000, and returns have been received from 7,600 of them. 

 In the great majority of cases, however, the returns showed 

 that no land was held for allotments, no applications had been 

 received, and no proceedings taken. The number of returns 

 which showed that some action had been taken in regard to 

 allotments, either in 1910 or in previous years, was 1,933, 

 1,500 being from Parish Councils, 277 from Urban District 

 Councils, 155 from Town Councils, and 1 from the London 

 County Council. 



The total quantity of land let for the purpose of allotments 

 by the various Local Authorities in England and Wales on 

 December 31st, 1910, was 27,838 acres, of which 6,094 acres 

 were the property of the Councils, and 21,744 acres were 

 leased. This land is let to 100,498 individual tenants and 21 

 Associations. 



In rural parishes it is usually possible to obtain allotments 

 from private landowners direct, and there is, therefore, no 

 need for the intervention of the Parish Council, but in large 

 towns this is less often the case, and it is, therefore, satis- 

 factory to notice that out of the 73 County Boroughs in 

 England and Wales allotments have been provided by the 

 Town Councils in 41 of them. 







* Cd. 5648. Price 3d. 



