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Download the free Landshare App

Landshare is an initiative, which we launched in 2009, that connects people who want to grow fruit and vegetables to people who have space to share.

It has grown into a thriving community of more than 60,000 growers, sharers and helpers.

Our App is an essential free tool that builds on the success of the Landshare website, enabling you to use the core Landshare tools on the go.

Its objectives are to lower barriers people face, mainly space, in growing their own food. This initiative thereby address issues of health, food access and equality, environment, food security, and community cohesion.

                     

What's on it?

Our Landshare App allows you to:

•  Join the growing Landshare community.
•  List or find land to grow on.
•  Ask the community questions about growing.
•  Find helpers for all kinds of help.
•  Apply to the councils for land from the app (they have a legal duty to provide you with land).
•  Identify derelict land to help create new spaces.

Landspotting

Landspotting is here! You can help us map all the derelict land across the UK that could be put to growing use.

Lets Grow

Lets Grow enables you to make your council take your request for an allotment seriously! Bypass closed waiting lists and activate a request with new functionality that makes the process simple to do! Most councils have a legal duty to grant your request.

For those of you without an iPhone, both the Landspot and Lets Grow tools are available here on the Landshare website as well.

Best Green Mobile App

Our Landshare App won the award for Best Green Use of Mobile Apps and Technologies at the Green Awards 2010.

Launched in 2006 to critical acclaim, the International Green Awards was set up to recognise and reward creative work that communicates the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainable development and ethical best practice in any sector and across any marketing discipline.

What Hugh says . . .

Hugh is a big fan of the App. “Landshare has always been, literally, a ground-breaking initiative but now it’s set to really push the agenda."

"We know there are 100,000 people on council waiting lists for allotments in England alone, with up to 40-year waits, plus a significant amount of waiting lists that are actually closed!" he adds.

"This app will ensure that councils can no longer shut the door to their legal duty to provide.

"Landshare has been at the forefront of the debate on land use and accessibility – it is unacceptable to say that the land is not available because most of us pass derelict land in our travels every day.

"By bringing attention to the scale of space that is already on our doorsteps with ‘LandSpot’, we hope to help enable this potential to be realised and for much more land to be made fertile.”