Community groups call for ‘right to grow’ food in UK’s unloved public spaces

Incredible Edible says a new law could give people better health, wellbeing and access to fruit and vegetables

People should be given the right to turn road verges, sterile lawns around hospitals and underused public spaces into vegetable gardens and orchards, say campaigners for a right to grow" law.

Incredible Edible, a network of more than 150 community growing groups, has drawn up plans to oblige local authorities to keep a register of public land suitable for vegetable and fruit-growing, which local groups could apply to access.