Swapping plots

[allotmentlady]

I have no problem with people swapping plots if one becomes available, great go for it but I do get miffed, along with a few other people on my site when someone who does not bother working his own allotment for nearly 2 years, digs big trenches, leaves it an absolute mess, always complaining its water logged, to then convince the allotment officer to give him another plot! We all know he wont work it and the allotment officer knows he is lazy. I contacted her today and enquired as to why she was letting this happen........she says it becuase he requested to move.......fair enough but with a waiting list of 226, surely the people waiting take preference???

So annoyed over it as he wont work it, he will let everything rot, let the weeds grow high and then start complaining.

[greenstar]

Ooh, that wouldn't be allowed on our site. He would've been chucked out ages ago. Have you not got rules that deal with this sort of thing? Any swapping has to go before our management committee, and if you've been warned recently about the state of your garden then there's no chance you'll be allowed to move.

[Mrs Be]

My lottie is on a very small site (just nine plots) with no committee, just a man who takes our fiver every year (he's on the parish council I think), so there's none of this swapping business.

Sometimes when I read of sheds, swings, ponds, greenhouses, open days etc about others' sites I feel a twinge of envy! But then when I read posts like this it soon evaporates...

And goodness, a waiting list of 226!n Can't the council be made to find another allotment site for at least some of these patient people?

[Mikey]

Attached are the relevant laws relating to allotments, and when the acts were brought in.

Allotment Acts

I think that lobbying your local council should result in them offering more provision for allotment space, and they have a right for compulsory purchase of land, for this provision.

[allotmentlady]

I have been fightin the local council for years regarding land for lotties etc.......lazy allotment officer, council who do not care.....wish i had an old chap take a fiver off me a year and leave me in peace......

[Snadger]

Our allotment rules state that if a plot becomes available and an existing member would like to swap he has the opportunity to do so at the beginning of the next rental period.
Some plots are better than others, have better fencing, or a greenhouse or shed or even soil conditions are better and it would be wrong to stop someone who has struggled with an inferior plot from swapping.

That said, if the guy was a waster and only wanted an easy option I would imagine the committee could overule this option!

[Mikey]

Our allotment rules state that if a plot becomes available and an existing member would like to swap he has the opportunity to do so at the beginning of the next rental period.
Some plots are better than others, have better fencing, or a greenhouse or shed or even soil conditions are better and it would be wrong to stop someone who has struggled with an inferior plot from swapping.

That said, if the guy was a waster and only wanted an easy option I would imagine the committee could overule this option!

Kind of seen this first hand, on my parents site, where potential new plots have been taken over by existing allotmenteers as they knew the people trying to get a plot would not look after it. I think sometimes officials can be over zealous, but they have the sites best interests at heart as well as their own.

[allotmentlady]

Like I said I dont mind peeps swapping plots, but swapping when you cannot be bothered looking after it, its not right.