Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland
Ms Maeve Foreman:
Sometimes it is known from the start that it is a meanwhile garden and for meanwhile use. For example, there is the case of Weaver’s Square in Dublin, where the council needed to take it back because it was zoned for housing. It was an ideal site for housing. However, it replaced it with a few smaller sites. There were not as many allotments as there were in Weaver’s Square, but at least the council worked with the gardeners and gave them something to replace it.
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