Heaven help you

[Aberdeenplotter]

In Horticultural Week there is an article about Allotments and that new plots will be created but will be accompanied by price increases. I registered on their website and posted the following comment

"Noted that Councils are seeking to reduce levels of subsidies but they should take note of a 1981 case heard in the Chancery division of the High Court - Harwood v Reigate and Banstead Council which held it unlawful for a local authority to increase charges to allotment holders by more than the increases applied to the users of a Council's other recreational facilities.

Within the last couple of weeks, in Southampton County Court, Eastleigh Council was forced to reduce the level of increases to its allotment holders. The gentleman who took his Council to court over this issue was Mr Alex Mullins."

I then called the secretary of NSALG who told me they were between a rock and a hard place because they had Councils as members. She also said her personal view was that if you valued something, you would pay for it.

Heaven help you guys if that is the viewpoint of your National Association.

[Dead Dogs]

Makes me glad that my "allotment" is in my back garden.

[Florence Fennel]

Me too DD!

[Aberdeenplotter]

well I may join you after the euro millions draw

[Snadger]

NSALG aren't my cup of tea either I'm afraid.

Our site has become too dictatorial and is no longer a pleasant retreat. For years the site was run in a friendly manner with a minimal ammount of rules and regulations. Now we all have to pay a couple of quid each to be a member of NSALG before we can have a plot. and they just add their set of rules to the rules and regulations enforced by the council. The allotment association is also encouraged to add there own rules which makes it a veritable rule ennforced minefield
When I was Sec the councils tenancy agreement was twelve pages long, the allotment committe added another three pages of their own and NSALG came in as a glorified insurance company.

We've got our AGM tomorrow and although I will be there, I don't want any part of the committee rules and regs, the councils rules and regs and NSALG's rules and regs! All I want to do is do a bit of gardening for cripes sakes!

I think I may be turning into a closet anarchist in my old age!

PS I took on the job of Hon Sec to help out with the paperwork. Not to be forever sending out notices to quit, checking all plots are 75% cultivated once a month or to join other committe members in physically evicting tenants

PPS Sorry Mods.................this should probably have been in the minor grudge thread!

[binley100]

Get together a few likeminded tenants and overturn the committee ........our site was run as a dictatorship before we got our plot and one person stood up and challenged the committee with an EGM .....now we have a well run site , fairly laid back and a thriving social side....We are a member of NSALG as a whole but the fee comes out of the rent money and we only have our own rules .