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Berlin Senate Advances Law to Permanently Safeguard Allotment Gardens

The draft bars sales of 56,280 state-owned allotment garden plots under a public-interest conversion clause before advancing to the Council of Mayors.

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Die Berliner Kleingärten sollen mithilfe eines neuen Gesetzes geschützt werden.
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Overview

  • On July 15, the Senate approved the Kleingartenflächensicherungsgesetz draft to protect 56,280 allotment gardens across 2,283 hectares of state-owned land by banning sales and restricting removals.
  • The bill permits conversion only for defined public-interest projects, such as affordable housing or infrastructure, subject to Abgeordnetenhaus approval and replacement plots within four kilometres.
  • Paths within secured garden sites must remain publicly accessible, underscoring the social and environmental value of urban green spaces.
  • The draft now proceeds to the Council of Mayors for consultation ahead of a final vote in the Abgeordnetenhaus.
  • Gardener groups praised the law for halting site shrinkage, while AfD politician Harald Laatsch warned that the public-interest exception still allows garden destruction.