The site, once blighted by fly-tipping and littering, has been transformed by the Council, Lampton Greenspace and Scheffel Landscape Architecture into a brand new allotment site which includes a community growing space and ecology zone.
Published: Wednesday, 11th June 2025
Earlier this week, Councillor Shaheen, Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure and Public Spaces at Hounslow Council, officially launched the new allotment at Faggs Road North situated in Green Man Lane in Bedfont.
It is the latest site in the council’s first-of-its kind Grow for the Future programme.
The space includes new allotment plots and a communal growing space that will allow community groups or forest schools to host growing sessions, share learning and increase biodiversity efforts within the space.
Image showing the before and after of the site
The launch event included seed ball making, tree planting, gardening activities and planting herbs with community groups such as Let’s Go Outside and Learn, Heron Way Allotments, Health Means Wealth, Heston Action Group, Cultivate and Creative Spaces London.
John Patterson from Accessible Allotments, highlighted the transformation, he said:
When I first visited this site, it was overgrown with lots of rubbish. This is the first time I have been back in two years and the space is incredible.
It will be amazing to see the wider Feltham community benefit from this green space.
Councillor Salman Shaheen, highlighted the benefit of this space for the local community, he said:
It was my great pleasure to officially open this site and see this wasteland transformed into a wonderful community garden and allotments that benefit Feltham residents.
The Community will now have the opportunity to get their hands dirty and grow their own fruit and vegetables.
Revitalising this space is part of Grow for the Future programme to transform neglected spaces into places where people can grow their own food and learn about healthy living.”
Grow for the Future turns unused and unloved land across the borough into new allotment sites, community gardens and orchards to grow food in a cost-of-living crisis and teach urban children and adults about healthy living, sustainability and biodiversity.
Back in 2023, the scheme received the backing from the government and received £165,000 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and it has won praise from Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter. This transformation was also part of the wider Allotment Improvement Project.
For more information on the Council’s Grow for the Future scheme, click here.
