allotment taken away - conclusion (of sorts) post 668 onwards

[Finedon.Dandy]

I have just sent this email to Mr Kirk;


Dear Mr Kirk

I am a member of an online gardening community forum. There
has been a thread started which tells how a Mr Baxter has had
his allotment taken from him without any notice being given
whatsoever. Everyone is disgusted at the treatment Mr Baxter has
received and even more so that some four days after it being
highlighted in the local press, no action or even comment has been
heard from either the Council or the department involved.

It would seem Mr Baxter has been using the allotment for physical
activity and to eat healthily, to help ease his depression. The
situation he now finds himself in will be causing him further
stress, not to mention the increased cost on his family budget, now
that he will have to buy vegetables and also seed should he be able
to have the mental and physical energy to get through this and start
again. I feel the council must re-instate his allotment, re-plant a
full stock of healthy vegetables and at the very least offer him his
plot free of charge for at least one if not two or three years.

I have been led to believe that it is you we need to contact and I
hope that is the case and you can lead action to be taken to rectify
this matter at the earliest opportunity.

I look forward to hearing from you by return.

Yours sincerely

Tammy Grigg




I hope that reads ok - in a bit of a rush as off to dentist cos I got awful toothache.

Good luck all, will be back on later to see how we are getting on and to see if choocks hatched!

Tammy

[zazen999]

If you look on the right hand side at the bottom, under 'most commented' - they have taken this story off the listing.

[MaureenHall]

How dare they!!! The rotten sods

[kiwirach]

If you look on the right hand side at the bottom, under 'most commented' - they have taken this story off the listing.

well, they have only just done that in the last hour or so, cos i looked at it myself this morning.....in the time frame between my last posts on here and now!.

also, i have put up a thread on selfsufficiencist.com with a link to the newspaper article....there are alot of lottie holders over there.

[BilboWaggins]

I just left comment #95 on the newspaper website. Why on earth would the paper take it off their comments listing? Do they need to keep favour with someone on the Council who has put pressure on them?

Strewth - first post here, and I thought I'd be asking about manure (grin)

[carlseawolf]

just had this e-mail from the editor

Dear Mr Comins
Many thanks for your email.
As you are aware, the full story has not appeared on the website
although we will be following this up with more web material over the
coming days.
Many thanks for your interest in the website
Regards
David Atkin
Deputy Editor

This e-mail was a reply from the newspaper editor that i sent last night.

[smallblueplanet]

Nice one Carl!

@BilboWaggins - we're not normally so militant (well not all the time!).

[BrideXIII]

well I have just been on there and we stand at 97 comments, ( jayne from cumbria manages a double post woo hoo!) so it's still up for me.

glad to see someone has had a reply from one of the editors, I HAVEN'T YET

However I Just had a phone call from Thrive in answer to my enquiry, and although they can't actually DO anything because they can't take sides etc, the lady concerned did wish us luck, and is sending me some links by email which may prove useful.

[BrideXIII]

OH I forgot!! must have been an administrative error................ I had an automated reply from the NLC they will try to reply to my complaint within ten days!!

TEN DAYS?? I will have sent the buldozers in by then!

[zazen999]

The comments are still up - it's just not under the 'most commented' bit on the right hand side.

i suppose they might just count the comments from the last 4 days' news reports...

ETA: just checked and it's come back - how odd...

[di]

OH I forgot!! must have been an administrative error................ I had an automated reply from the NLC they will try to reply to my complaint within ten days!!

TEN DAYS?? I will have sent the buldozers in by then!

You read my mind!!Was about to ask if they'd acknowledged reciept!!Have you got their number?

[BrideXIII]

The comments are still up - it's just not under the 'most commented' bit on the right hand side.

i suppose they might just count the comments from the last 4 days' news reports...

ETA: just checked and it's come back - how odd...

yep i am looking at it now, its definaitely there in most commented, perhaps someone is watching this thread

it wouldn't take much for them to do a search for online gardening forums and find this thread.

[Hazel at the Hill]

I just left comment #95 on the newspaper website. Why on earth would the paper take it off their comments listing? Do they need to keep favour with someone on the Council who has put pressure on them?

Strewth - first post here, and I thought I'd be asking about manure (grin)

Good to see you Bilbo! *waves

[MaureenHall]

I've just had a reply to my email

Thank you for your e-mail.

I have today forwarded this on to Cllr Len Foster, Deputy Leader and
Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood and Environmental Issues, asking that he
look into this matter and contact you about this.

I hope this is helpful.

Regards


Cllr Mark Kirk

[BrideXIII]

* does a happy dance*

not that anything is solved , but I do like to see movement.