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my allotment is council owned and the only thing they do i cut the grass twice a year, i have taken it upon myself to strim and cut the grass paths, i also strim any vacant plots and when they are taken on i offer to rotovate the plot at no cost just so people dont become disheartened and give up. at the present time i have done this for 5 new plot holders in the last 6 months. it took numerous acts of vandalisem just to get the old wooden gates changed to metal ones and i dont think that they would have done this had the vandals not ripped one of the gates down and set fire to it. I spent many months telling the site steward that the bottom gate could not be opened because of over grown vegetation and even rang the council who said they were aware but still did nothing about it so again i did it myself. So from my experiance if the council are getting the rents they are content just let things go on as they are so long as there is no cost incurred by them.