Hungerhill Allotments

Do you have an allotment at Hungerhill in St Anns? If so, we need to know you views and opinions. Please download and complete the Hungerhill Allotments Questionnaire and return it to us, either by email at gn@groundwork.org.uk or post by send your completed questionnaire to Hungerhill Allotment Project, Groundwork Greater Nottingham, Denman Street East, Nottingham NG7 3GX. Click here to download the questionnaire (*you will require Microsoft Word installed on your computer to open this file).

If you are a Hungerhill allotment holder download the Hungerhill Allotments Questionnaire in Microsoft Word (.doc) format*.

St Anns allotments (Hungerhills Gardens, Stonepit Coppice Gardens and Gorseyclose Gardens) are one of the earliest and largest of allotment gardens in the country. The site is now heritage listed as grade 2. The site is also entered on the wildlife sites register as being important for wildlife.

This 32 hectare site has over 360 allotment plots and yet is within a couple of miles of the city centre. In its lifetime thousands of people have worked the plots, creating a special landscape and developing their own heritage. This project is rooted both in the traditions of allotment horticulture and the challenges of 21st century life in Nottingham. After a period of relative neglect aspects of the heritage are under threat, and so we will conserve, improve, and secure the future of the gardens as a unique form of social and community heritage.

Planned work includes work improving the security of the site, work to improve access, management of hedgerows within the site, a better water supply and distribution network and restoring listed structures.

Recording of structures and historic fruit trees and an ecology study are also proposed. A part of the future work is to spread knowledge about the site through education, open days, central archives etc.

The programme is being run through a consortium of local organisations. The Renewal Trust, Nottingham City Council, STAA, NECTA, Urban Nature, Ecoworks, TANC and Groundwork Greater Nottingam.

In 2002 a conservation management report was prepared by Hilary Taylor Associates. She summarised the aim of this document as follows;-
'The future of this remarkable site, with its dense array of individual, intricate gardens which have mapped the passions and interests of generations of Nottinghamshire people, remains in the balance. … The avenues, hedges, gateways and materials, which provide the framework, can and should be improved. The real key, however, is in recognising and recording the patterns of individual lives pursued over past centuries, and in providing the support and infrastructure which will allow such activities to flourish once more.'