Blackhall Colliery - Allotments

Allotments

Blackhall Colliery has a garden association, which is located around 500 yards inland from the beach front. The garden association consists of around 250 gardens covering six alleyways.

The allotments are continually improving security within the area as vandals and binge drinkers tend to hang out around the site before making their way to the beach. Added security like gates and security cameras help reduce vandalism and unwanted trespassing.

There has been an increase in rabbit and foxes within the allotments that residents of the gardens are aware of, crops tend to get destroyed or damaged which leads to hunters in hunting prey to keep the numbers down!

Fisherman normally park up in the allotment car park and head down to the beach front since there is no access to the beach banks, the allotments had a big car park bay for around 20 cars and a smaller car park on entry to the gates for about 5 to 10 cars.

There is big demand for allotments and a waiting list is scheduled in priority of people who put their names down on a first come first served basis, there is on average a 1 year waiting list.