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• The site is opposite the vehicle entrance to Grade l Listed Syon Park and is part of that Estate.
• Ownership is allied to the Syon Estate, part of the wealthy and global Northumberland Estates.
• The land was leased in 1917 by the then Duke of Northumberland* to the Local Authority to manage and provide allotments; this at a time of food shortages and the return of WW1 veterans.
• The management of the site reverted from the Council to the Northumberland/Syon Estates in 2015, since when rental of unused plot has not been permitted.
• Planning applications to build 127 properties on the whole site were refused by Councillors in 2016; this decision was upheld by the Planning Inspectorate for England and Wales in 2018.
• The Isleworth Society applied for the site’s ‘Asset of Community Value’ status, which is in place until 2025; it was also represented at the Enquiry by the Planning Inspectorate.
• In 2020, The Northumberland Estates submitted the application to build 80 properties on two thirds of the site.

Photo of Henry George, the 7th Duke of Northumberland, who died in 1918 and provided the lease to the Local Authority to manage and provide the allotments in 1917.

Photo added to Find A Grave by Dimitrios Corcodilos.