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Update 13th July: We've posted an update on the situation on our website.

Back in 2022 Locavore secured a long term concessionary lease for Bellahouston Nursery which should have secured its future as a sustainable food hub until 2062. Here we grow vegetables, host community growing plots, pack our veg boxes, supply charities with fresh produce, and do much more.

We do a lot of the work that the Council wants to see in terms of their Food Growing Strategy​, Climate Plan​, Strategic Development Plan​, Open Space Strategy and much more. This includes:

• increasing availability of healthy, sustainable and local food
• increasing local food production
• increasing organic food production
• creating routes to market for local, sustainable food
• creating community growing space
• creating green jobs. 

In the past, the Council has been very supportive of our work: they initially invited us to take over the Bellahouston site and have provided funding, most recently in February awarding almost £50,000 through their Glasgow Food System Development Fund, to enable us to build on our work at Bellahouston and develop the site further.

Despite all this, the Council has asked us to vacate the site by 31st of July with no explanation beyond being ‘not minded’ to give us a new lease. It’s an impossible deadline (in the middle of the growing season!) and would destroy our hard work over the past decade.

This is because the original lease became void when Locavore CIC entered administration back in January. The Chard Holding Group CIC, which took over the running of Locavore with the same ethos, had assurance from the Council that they would work with us through this transition to allow us to continue all our projects at Bellahouston.

You can find out much more about the situation in our report, “Bellahouston, we have a problem.” 

Now, after months of attempting to enter a solutions focussed discussion with the Council, Locavore has decided to go public in an effort to safeguard livelihoods and secure the valuable work that we do.

Sign this petition to call on Glasgow City Council to:

• support local, sustainable food for Glasgow 
• revoke the Notice of Removal issued
• work with Locavore to agree a new long term concessionary lease
• release the Food System Development Funding which was awarded to us.

When signing the petition, please make sure to provide your location so the Council knows if you’re a Glasgow resident. If you are not a Glasgow resident please sign anyway.