Campaign calls for London-wide 'Right to Grow' on unused public land

Campaigners have urged the Greater London Authority to adopt a standardized framework allowing communities to turn unused public land into food gardens.

• Several councils, including Hounslow, Southwark and Hackney, have already introduced Right to Grow policies.
• A new report from the London People's Assembly on Food, Nature and the Right to Grow outlines 12 demands for the capital by 2035.
• Kalpana Arias, a campaigner, said the GLA should implement Right to Grow within its food and housing policies to reduce red tape.
• Deputy mayor Mete Coban said increasing access to green space was a matter of social and environmental justice.