123	TEMPLAR HOUSE GARDENING PROJECT
	Campaigning since March 1999 to save a community garden from destruction by Camden Council

VICTORY AT LAST…

OUTRAGEOUS CRIME 1999: JUSTICE IS FINALLY DONE

In December 2002 campaigners finally obtained a court judgement that council employees Rex Bendon and Dawn Aldred were wrong to rip out plants from the Templar House gardens. Judge Latham said “it is not surprising that Mr. Carty felt outraged.”

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GARDENING CLUB SCOOPS SECOND PRIZE IN

‘CAMDEN IN BLOOM’

The gardening club that Camden council employees wanted to ban has just been awarded second prize in Camden’s own competition. Templar House Gardening Club were awarded second prize in two categories in ‘Camden in Bloom’ 2002: Best Council Estate and Best Gardening Club. For three years council employees had been trying to ban tenants from gardening on the Templar House estate; slandering them in the press and even trying to send the Chair of the Gardening Club to prison for gardening! The situation began to improve in January 2002, when the Gardening Club were given official permission to garden once more. Just months later, the gardens which Camden slanderously described as a “gypsy camp” were winning prizes. You can only imagine what sort of a paradise we would have been able to create on this urban council estate if Camden had spent on the gardens here the thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money they wasted trying to discourage us.

Campaigning gardeners James Carty and Lesley Fox receive their prize-winning certificate from the Director of the Leisure Department.

THE TEMPLAR HOUSE GARDENS

IN 2002

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