Brent Council have no capital allocation for creating allotments so planning gain is probably the only realistic route for an expansion of allotment places. The only possible site on the horizon at the moment is in Gladstone Park, close to Campbell Gordon Way.
The site in Gladstone Park is currently some derelict sports facilities. They originally belonged to a school, but the school was closed twenty years ago, back when projections suggested that London's population was falling. The sports facilities were kept but not maintained. Hence, the abandoned cricket nets disfiguring that part of Gladstone Park, as well as the astroturf pitch too close to housing to be used.
Allotments would make much better sense.
UPDATE:
Responding to David below. The stroturf pitch has been extensively vandalised, and is too near to housing to be useable at night (according to modern standards). I understand no one has used the pitch for at least eight years. It is being turned back into grass.
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i grew up playing football on that astroturf pitch virtually every spare hour that i had spare in the 80s and 90s as did most off my friends . I went for a jog on Sunday and i noticed the pitch was being dug up , any ideas what is happening in its place , hopefully a sports pitch of some description as we've lost too many sports pitches in brent over the last few years and the adult 11 aside game is dying as a result of this
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