Site name: Edward Street allotment	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: SCC Housing/Planning & Transport	Date of survey: 28-Feb-00
Current management: As allotments with sheds, some used for pigeons and a 'pet sanctuary'.	Proposed management: Secure & improved fencing (or new hedge) and wall repair for site - not an SCC-run allotment. Verge by footpath could be managed with a new wildflower seed mix/scrub removal (elder), & more ornamental species used.
	Date of Visual Survey - Aug 2004	Click map to see details and location of photographs

The ideas and possibilities outlined below are designed to help members of the local community as they think about what could happen on this site. Nothing is fixed and alternative solutions may well emerge over the coming decade - it is for the local community to decide and enable it to happen.Use the email button at the bottom right to volunteer to help and also to send additional information and ideas for specific sites

1.	Visual Attributes - update 2004 These allotments are difficult to see from the road, as there are many trees bounding the site. The site runs across a slope, with Edward Street to the north and Firths wood yard above, to the south side. The allotments look fairly unkempt, with corrugated iron sheets and barbed wire forming one of the entrances. A tree-lined stream flows through the site.
Safety Many trees grow on site, and it is not overlooked, so some users could feel vulnerable. However, the abundance of wildlife and views across the valley give it a pleasant feel. Activities that the site supports at present The site’s main function is obviously for growing fruit and vegetables, although it appears that many of the plots are abandoned. Activities that could be supported in the future Access to unused allotments could be opened up and a community-run garden could be established.	2.
	Ideas for change The site of these allotments could be improved by clearing rubbish and providing a dense, double hedge in front of the fence on the road side. There are standard trees on the rough grassland in front of the allotments (north side) and mown grass in front of that grassland.

Ecology

HABITAT TYPES FOUND ON SITE
	found 2002	aim by 2012		found 2002	aim by 2012
Amenity Grassland			Mosses and Bryophytes
Amenity Shrubs			Heath Land
Amenity Tree Planting			Wetlands
Amenity Flower Beds			Open Water
Amenity Hedges			Running Water	*
Rough Grassland			Cultivated/Disturbed Land	*
Acid Grassland			Bare Earth/Erosion
Marshy Grassland			Hedges
Trees Broadleaf	*		Walls	*
Trees Coniferous (Larch)	*		Fences	*
Trees Mixed			Invasive Species
Scrub	*		Other (Please state)
Tall Herbs
Low Herbs and Shrubs (Native)
Amenity Bulb Planting

Stocksbridge SRB5 Greenspace Audit undertaken by Jim Flanagan for Sheffield Wildlife Trust - see their Community Action Handbook - full of good ideas for your local site

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