"The allotments are a space for people to meet and can bring people, communities and families together. They provide great support with mental health, can reduce isolation, can reduce stress and can support physical health with exercise. An allotment is a source of homegrown produce which promotes healthy living and can reduce grocery bills. They are a great sense of achievement and also a great learning environment for both adults and children."
"Prioritise the living over the dead. Removing green space used by living humans in the community to make room for the dead is backwards thinking."
"They are the last remaining allotments in Teddington and provide an important resource for the local community including the charities that use it. We will always need more burial space which requires long-term planning, and it seems like a short-sighted plan to take our last remaining allotments to provide it."
Richmond Council plans to extend Teddington Cemetery onto Shacklegate Lane allotments to meet urgent demand for burial spaces. Residents object on grounds that the allotments support community meeting, mental health, social connection, exercise, homegrown food and charities, and that they are the last remaining allotments in Teddington. Objectors urged prioritising living community needs over creating more burial space and warned the move is short-sighted without long-term burial planning. Officers said the borough would still meet allotment targets if the extension proceeded, that alternative arrangements would be made for current users, and noted a 1993 approval indicating temporary allotment use.
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