Allotment alert

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi Raine - just read your thread. I'm gutted for you but think the advice the grapes have previously given you is excellent and I don't think there is much I can add. If you need me to do anything then just let me know. Bernie

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I think that councils don't look a "the bigger picture" If area is "devoloped" (sic) will there be any shops, buses,ect Will the roads handle the extra traffic? People need more tha just houses.
It seems to me that councils are interested in "MONEY" and not their council tax payers.

[dexterdoglancashire]

I think that councils don't look a "the bigger picture" If area is "devoloped" (sic) will there be any shops, buses,ect Will the roads handle the extra traffic? People need more tha just houses.
It seems to me that councils are interested in "MONEY" and not their council tax payers.

BW how true! What about councils charging us for getting rid of our waste (ie chips in bins - yep Ive got one!) and then only recycling bottled plastic - they'd better get their act together if they think they are charging me before I can reycle ALL my plastics! Sorry! Got a bee in my bonnet about this! Bernie
Any news on the lottie front?

[NOG]

This is going to be a long one….Sorry folks.

1. Form a defence committee whos sole aim is to defend the site.
Contact your local Green party get them on site.
Contact your local Allotment Forum/Federation
Contact a local Celeb to be president
Contact local press….you will need to do the work cos Reporters are a lasy lot you take the photos, write the article and they will edit it and publish it. Get on line and find the name of the reporter who covers your area and phone him and send it all to him direct.
2. Get on to the Prime Ministers web page and create an online petition and then email every one you know to add to it, then got on all the forums and get us to sigh it.
3. Go online and get a copy of your councils
a. Unitary Development Plan (UDP),
b. Local Development Framework (LDF)
c. Local Development Scheme (LDS)
Read them they may say that they support open spaces if they do use it against the
Council saying they are going against their own plan.
4. Visit your loacl MPs Surgery and local Councilers Surgery, go to the council meeting and get on the agenda and ask questions (they need to know you are going to fight.
5. What you have got to argue is that your allotments are:
· A multicultural asset that will be missed by all section of the community who are residents of the Borough,
· If you have any disabled members (stroke, angina, asthma all count). Play of the benefits that the allotemtns give them.
· Argue that there are not enough alternative sites in the borough,
· Argue that they have to provide allotments by law.
· Go on the GREEN offensive...
a. loss of the trees, the carbon offset that the trees give,
b. the addition of greenhouse gasses that the new housing will produce
c. the pollution caused by the trucks that will build on the land.
d. Extra congestion that the extra housing will cause.


6. Contact Local TV news get them to do an piece.

Allotments and Green isues are in at the moment play on it.

Get a website / blog up and put the news good and bad on it advertise and however bad you think it is going fight.

Best Wishes

NOG