Work is underway to restore this derelict allotment site, bringing it back into productive use to create growing spaces and a new community wellbeing garden to support wellbeing initiatives. First established in 1913 as the Lee and District Land Club Cooperative, this historic site once played an important role in the ‘Dig for Victory’ movement. Now, we’re bringing it back to support today’s ‘Right to Grow’.

This next chapter begins with a big clearout – cutting back brambles, digging out invasive roots and skipping years of accumulated rubbish.

We are working collaboratively with the newly elected Lee and District Land Club Committee and the Council to revive the site over the coming months of 2026.

Last year we coordinated five volunteer days, who helped clear 6 skips of rubbish. Read about our work so far, and the plans to bring it back to life, into a thriving, productive community asset once more. Thank you to allotment tenants who helped with ideas for the allotment.

We look forward to sharing more as our ideas develop for the ‘Wonderful Healing Garden’ at the proposed community wellbeing plots. Inspired by E. Nesbit’s story The Wonderful Garden, which captures the magic and secret language of flowers through a child’s sense of curiosity, we hope this space will nurture a similar sense of wonder.

Our aim is to create a place where the simple act of growing healthy food keeps that “magic” alive—deepening connections to the heritage of the neighbourhood and to the enduring traditions of growing your own nutritious healing herbs and vegetables.