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Wembley Area Action Plan - Proposed Submission Version105Open space, sports and wildlife 11Food Growing11.11 Local food growing supports healthy livingand has environmental and community benefits. Inthe Wembley area, there are public allotmentsavailable at Cecil Avenue, Lyon Park Avenue,Bovington Avenue and a small number of privateallotments at Vivian Avenue. However, theseallotments have long waiting lists, are not locatedwithin the Wembley AAP boundary and soconsequently are not easily accessible to much ofthe area. Limited development is promoted atVivian Avenue to enable improvements to theallotments and existing tennis courts and clubhouse (SSA25 of the Site Specific AllocationsDPD). The Brent Open Space Report – PPG17Assessment identifies a local standard of 1 newallotment plot per 200 new residents. The reportrecognises the constraints in providing newallotment plots and promotes allotment gardens innew housing developments that can be placed onflat roof spaces where large beds can provide forfood growing and recreational use.WEM 38Food GrowingThe council will promote local food growing byencouraging major new residentialdevelopment, to include space for residentsto grow their own food and/or for theestablishment of gardens for community foodgrowing. The use of vacant spaces temporarilyfor food growing will be encouraged. Thecouncil will seek contributions fromdevelopment at Vivan Avenue to enableallotment expansion.Sports FacilitiesPicture 11.4 Example of foodgrowing11.12 The council has secured a new communityswimming pool and health and fitness centre aspart of the redevelopment of Dexion House, EmpireWay. The council’s Sports department isimplementing the priorities of the Facilities Strategyand has recently laid out football pitches at KingEdward VII park and installed a new MUGA. Othersports facilities will be needed and these could bedelivered in a number of ways including councilcapital investment, access to school facilities andfunding from development.WEM 39Sports FacilitiesThe council will seek contributions fromdevelopment and use these to improve theprovision of sports facilities in Wembley andwill work in partnership with schools to makenew or upgraded sports facilities available forthe local community use out of school hours,e.g. Copland Community School.