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    Allotment security

    We had an interesting discussion at our recent allotment committee meeting about security, following yet another spate of break ins... The usual pattern of lots of shed damage but nothing taken.

    I'm very much of the view that, unless you're going to do your shed up like Fort Knox (which indicates that you really do have something worth stealing) the best approach is to leave the shed door open.

    I've summarised the options available on allotment security at the link below to help any of our new association members. If you can see anything missing or think I should change anything please let me know.

    Thanks, John

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    A lot of the people on our site leave the sheds open - my doors don't even shut.. there's tools, wellies, etc all in there - and have been for the past 6 months. Afew people have had things taken, the stuff in mine (previous occupants) was left.. it's all cheapo tools mind. I'll use them if I do an adhoc visit, or take my decent ones with me and home again when it's a planned trip.

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    • #3
      I leave mine unlocked too. It's only got cheap tools in it, which are anyway hidden under piles of carrier bags & netting

      If I take my expensive tools up the lotty I keep them hidden around the plot, usually under the brassica netting

      Our site is generally pretty tidy & it's very well attended: there are people up there most hours of the day. I think that untidy sites are more of a magnet to thieves because they look uncared for, as though nobody's up there
      Last edited by Two_Sheds; 09-06-2011, 08:38 AM.
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by JohnMac View Post
        If you can see anything missing or think I should change anything please let me know.
        Perhaps a note about it being illegal to set up man-traps & barbed wire? As you have stated, berberis is a good legal alternative to barbed wire

        At my last site we had a continual problem with teenagers coming through the fence from the adjacent school: the headmaster was most unhelpful & basically said it was not his responsibility what his pupils did out of school

        We patched the fence as best we could but they just kept cutting it and ripping it. Then we started training brambles all over and along the fence, and that did the trick
        Last edited by Two_Sheds; 09-06-2011, 08:40 AM.
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          My derelict alotment shed is left open and empty in the hope that someone will break in, (not hard to do!) repair it and add a few tools as well if possible!
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #6
            We have had a few things vanish on our plot. My hubby has a security firm and is going to put up some dummy cameras to see if that deters them.
            If anyone else wants to try, let me know and I will pass on his details (Cambridge).

            T x
            Last edited by Tracebe; 30-06-2011, 11:23 AM.
            T x

            Crikey it's chilli in here. Let's turnip the heat

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            • #7
              I used to leave mine unlocked but it got annoying with people taking things out of my shed and moving them to other sheds on other plots. No theft as such but it took a few hours to find everything again. Since then I've put a basic padlock on it which has stopped the mischief makers. I don't keep anything of great value in there though in case it gets broken into properly. I either take my good stuff with me or store it in a secure chest which is hidden behind the shed and out of sight.

              Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

              Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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              • #8
                We have had 11 sheds broken into last week (not ours) from an area away from the houses. Just tools taken. The police say they are doing the rounds of the sites across Sheffield, selecting the remote ones.
                roger
                Its Grand to be Daft...

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