Interesting Report on need for permanent allotments from 1929.

This report is extracted from the minutes of the Allotments Committee of the Corporation of Glasgow in February 1929 that follows a request for information from towns in England and Scotland by the Town Clerk at the behest of the Allotments Committee. The Allotment Committee is a free standing committee - not as later under the aegis of Parks - and is composed of 7 representatives of the Allotment Holders Association ( which called itself the Glasgow and District Federation of the Allotment Holders Associations) and ten Councillors. This is a stronger representation of plotholders than required by the Land Utilisation (Scotland) 1922 Act (Edinburgh stuck strictly to the rules in that Act for number of representatives and initially allowed only three which on challenge was increased to four). This is  the only review of allotment policy found to date in the Council minutes and the request for information from England is unusual in that allotment in Scotland are always covered by their own Acts.