A sad, sad day

[lizzylemon]

remain as a natural tree belt...

Shows you how much they know - no such thing as a natural tree belt: they're all managed.

Load of smollocks.

Get the media in and kick up a fuss, might not keep your plot but you might feel better having put up a decent fight.
Good luck

[allotmentlady]

ridiculous.......the council is an ass........go public about it, really kick up a stink and see how far you can go....humiliation is the best way, crikey ur only wanting to grow veges...u also want compo if he wants you to dismantle ur hard work!

[pdblake]

Not sure if I'm reading this right. Are you saying that you took the turfed area and the trees in the picture on the left, and turned it into the veg patch in the picture on the right? And that this is someone elses land, designated as greenbelt?

If that is so, regardless of what the council say, do you really think it right to just go grabbing any old bit of land that takes your fancy?

I'm all for growing your own and would gladly sign any petition if you were being wronged here, but the simple story seems to be that you are being turfed off land that you had no business being on in the first place. If you want a veg plot that bad, get your name on the waiting list like everyone else.

Feel free to correct me if that is not the case.

[Hilary B]

Not sure if I'm reading this right. Are you saying that you took the turfed area and the trees in the picture on the left, and turned it into the veg patch in the picture on the right? And that this is someone elses land, designated as greenbelt?

If that is so, regardless of what the council say, do you really think it right to just go grabbing any old bit of land that takes your fancy?

I'm all for growing your own and would gladly sign any petition if you were being wronged here, but the simple story seems to be that you are being turfed off land that you had no business being on in the first place. If you want a veg plot that bad, get your name on the waiting list like everyone else.

Feel free to correct me if that is not the case.

Rather stronger than I would have put it, but otherwise similar to my thoughts.
Whose decision was the 'tree belt' and when? It looks as though it was planted with saplings in the first pic. What did you do with those?

Was the idea a windbreak/shelter belt?

[pdblake]

Rather stronger than I would have put it, but otherwise similar to my thoughts.

Maybe a little harsh, but then I'm on the waiting list just like everyone else, a very, very long list indeed, but I'm not taking over the greenbelt while I wait

That first pic does indeed look nicely planted and turfed. Looks like someone went to a certain amount of effort to provide a proper greenbelt, not a piece of wasteland.

[Two_Sheds]

It looks as though it was planted with saplings in the first pic. What did you do with those?

They're still there, behind the fence (the 2nd pic is taken from a different angle to the 1st)

[pdblake]

They're still there, behind the fence (the 2nd pic is taken from a different angle to the 1st)

So, the turf is actually Andrew's garden? Or is that part of the greenbelt?

[Nicos]

I was a bit confused....the turfed bit is your garden in the first piccie- and the soil area between the fence and the turf is the piece of land in question????

You've certainly worked hard with it if I've understood correctly.

[pdblake]

From what I can gather he was told to remove his raised beds etc. The only raised beds I can see on that pic are where the turfed bit should be.

[Hilary B]

They're still there, behind the fence (the 2nd pic is taken from a different angle to the 1st)

That's not the impression I got! If the gardening isn't in the bit where the saplings are/were, what is the problem anyway?
It seemed to me that the fence behind which small trees are visible in the second pic was the one separating the 'tree belt' behind the garden in question from that behind the next-door garden!

[kate&rob]

it's still a bit harsh no matter what sort of land it is, if it's acceptable to grow weeds on it but not veggies. get peter levy onto it from look north.

[pdblake]

it's still a bit harsh no matter what sort of land it is, if it's acceptable to grow weeds on it but not veggies. get peter levy onto it from look north.

In that first picture I can't see a weed in sight.

[Two_Sheds]

In that first picture I can't see a weed in sight.

Me neither.
In his first thread, he wrote this:

We have been here 3 &-half years & so have been taking the trouble to look after this land because no one else was bothering. ...It was riddled with horsetail & bindweed etc, etc. and only got visited with a guy spraying every six months or so...& that was the extent of it.

[pdblake]

Hmm, I think we need the OP to clarify just which bit of land is his and which isn't.

[NOG]

A bit harsh but from what I read its not your land so there in nothing you can do.