There may be trouble ahead ( swansea allotments)

[FerretFarts]

Thanks for the welcomes. I don't smell, honest.

Jack - I am on the one at Treboeth (already run by association). I hear that Sketty already went onto lease, so, they will know how it works in practice.

Have you heard anything from your assoc yet? Ours are arranging a meet for early in the new year. Timing isn't great as April is very near!

[jackarmy]

No im still waiting here Feret ( welcome by the way ), i got offered a plot at yours back in the summer, was the first one i registerd for.
Think theres only five that arent run by an assoc so maybe not that big a deal, they mention a price hike ?

[jackarmy]

Yep, basically the council are wiping their hands clean of all allotments in the Swansea area.
The land will be handed over to each site for a period of 25 years with each member having to sign a tennancy agreement.
We will take over the water bill which is currently £1500 0ver the 16 sites and site maintanance will be taken over by site members.

The council want to make headway regarding the leases by april 2018 , so thats Swansea sorted, any more to follow ?, this is by the way ( as you all probably knew) down to the council wanting to save 26 million

[FerretFarts]

Thanks Jack.

Crikey. So, we effectively only have a couple of months to get it sorted.

The water bill for the 16 sites is £1500 in total? Our members already do the maintenance from what I understand (i've only had my plot since april this year). So I guess aside from the paperwork there will not be a massive difference.

Do you know how much work is involved in making the switch? Have they provided any 'template' agreements or, does each site have to draft everything themselves?

[bikermike]

Don't the National Allotment Federation, have some guidance?

this might be of interest (disclaimer, I haven't read them, I am a member of the NBAS, but not an active committee-member, so check they are of recent date etc)
Self-management – barnet allotment federation