Manor Road Garden

 Work began to bring back into use the allotment garden at Manor Road on the 9 May when a team of people from Stonewater Housing, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, South Swindon Parish and Swindon Borough Council met and began clearing the site of debris and cleared three of the raised beds.

In July 2013, this was launched as an ambitious way to encourage people living in the new housing estate to grow their own food: Housing association opens communal allotment in Swindon - BBC News this is what the housing association flats looked like when new: Manor Road - Projects - Oxford Architects (oxford-architects.com) and here's what was said about it in Belfast Healthy Cities: Manor Road Community Garden, Swindon | Reuniting Planning and Health (belfasthealthycities.com) where I found a photo:

The sentiments expressed in the article are more relevant than ever today, looking forward to see this progress. I took some photos on the day as a record of the start:

There's a poly tunnel which requires a new cover

the raised beds are not in good condition, but with a bit of repairing could be used

Above you can see before they were cleared

and now the weeds have been cleared

Above a general shot of the site.