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Would it ever get to the stage when it was illegal for someone to be on an allotment site on there own? similar to working in certain areas in industry, in the last couple of months we have had on our allotments one chap having a fit because he was stung by a wasp and is allergic to wasp stings, thankfully someone phoned the paramedics, another old boy Jeff struggles to get his breath when he is on his lotty so he only goes to the lotty when his mate is up there, and yours truly nearly took a thumb off last week, with blood peeing out everywhere I managed to get to the health centre but I was on my own on the lotty, :)
Quote from: Mr Smith on October 24, 2010, 19:50:32Would it ever get to the stage when it was illegal for someone to be on an allotment site on there own? similar to working in certain areas in industry, in the last couple of months we have had on our allotments one chap having a fit because he was stung by a wasp and is allergic to wasp stings, thankfully someone phoned the paramedics, another old boy Jeff struggles to get his breath when he is on his lotty so he only goes to the lotty when his mate is up there, and yours truly nearly took a thumb off last week, with blood peeing out everywhere I managed to get to the health centre but I was on my own on the lotty, :)Interesting point. I can't see it being enforceable, but there's something to be said for being up there with other people. Nasty incident with the thumb, I hope your OK now.
Always be careful with home made shredder with a 5hp Briggs&Stratton engine for power, ;)
'Tis an interesting point of Mr Smith's too, about being alone on the allotment too. Certainly one worth bringing up at our next committee meeting.... :)
Thanks for your input Unwashed and Tonybloke... :)I didn't know about the right to house the chickens anywhere, but the thinking behind 'restricting' them to their own area is that we have enough space so that everyone that wants to keep chickens can do so in one place where keeping them safe from Mr Fox can be done communally and to better effect. I'll bear it in mind though, should anyone express a wish to keep theirs anywhere else.
we had to do 4' paths along the main 'avenues' of our plots but not on the individual plots themselves,
Nigel, the paths thing is tricky isn't it. As a minimum I'd say you'd need to be able to negotiate the main haulage ways and the main gate, and get into and around the site hut and loo in a wheel chair, but I don't see that there's a need for 1.4 wide paths as that does lose an awful of ground over the whole site. A reasonable adaptation could be that you'd have to widen the path to accomodate any tenant with an appropriate disability, and there'd be no objection anyway to a tenant widening their own paths for pushchairs say.I didn't think allotment sites needed planning permission. S55.(2).e Town and Country Planning Act 1990 lets you use any land for agriculture and Crowborough Parish Council v. Secretary of State for the Environment [1981] established that agriculture here includes allotments.