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^^ my interpretation of what I have read here is that marcitos wants the committee to change his tenancy agreement to omit maintenance of the hedge on the grounds of his disability. We've heard they maintain other hedges and they may have been no reason why thy would not have helped out with this one - after all they have equipment. But they wont amend his tenancy. Marcitos, is that right?As DJ indicates, if someone falls ill you go light on the rules and help them out but you don't rewrite their tenancy to say they don't have to do any weeding. Sorry, mate but I don't think it is going to get anywhere.
Who of us wouldn't happily do the hedge for her anyways?
who mentioned eviction?
Marcitos confirmed that she was obliged by a term of her tenancy agreement to cut the hedge. Without this obligation and it's consequence her argument has no merit. As it is she is evicted if she doesn't maintain the hedge, and because of her disability she can't maintain the hedge, but the DDA obliges the committee to make reasonable adjustments in just these circumstances and it is demonstrably reasonable that the committee relieve marcitos of the obligation.
But back to the original grievance: You'd have thought that common decency would have been enough for the committee to arrange to cut the hedge if someone said they had difficulty with it, and for me it's the great sadness of our age that we need legislation to force people reluctantly to do the right thing. And sadness upon sadness when allotmenteers can't even bring themselves to allow a fellow allotmenteer a miserably poor statutory minimum of dignity. Shame.
Marcitos:It stated that if anyone who couldn’t maintain their plots due to illness, infirmity, disability, personal problems… please let us know & we will do our best to help. I think that’s called Reasonableness & a recognition that the initial Terms were not fair.
Did not intend to post on this thread but feel I must say the last post from djbrenton was too much. >:(If a person with a disability chooses to be as independent as possible good for them but are all people with disabilities supposed to struggle just because some choose to ??We are supposed to care about other people and help whenever possible and I can't see much evidence of that on here.......shameful.Some people need a kick up the backside >:( >:( >:(
Committee members.........in my experience some and I repeat some committee members are a group of little wannabes whose only claim to power in life can be found on an Allotment committee.As such the only thing they want to do is shove bits of paper around and strut about feeling important.Ask em to get their hands dirty for the sake of a fellow Human Being and they don't want to know.I feel that if you feel dedicated enough to join the committee you should be involved in all aspects of life on your particular allotment never mind the bla bla bla about what the tenancy agreement says...in some areas of life you have to act with honour.