HERAA can report the number fell. The report was published later.


Research produced by the university of Derby in 2006, based on a partial survey of local authorities, reported that in the period 1996 to 2006, the number of allotment plots fell by 50,630. The report, commissioned but unpublished by the previous Government, was posted up on the DCLG website on 6 May, available at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1897047.pdf