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Allotment Stuff => Allotment Movement => Topic started by: andrea66 on December 15, 2015, 16:26:06
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When I first took on my lottie I remember reading somewhere that the site has to be 75% cultivated and 25% for sheds,greenhouses etc. but for the life in me I can't find these rules anywhere...........was I dreaming ?
I thought this was pretty standard.
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Depends on your tenancy agreement. Everyone has different agreements/rules in place.
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It also depends on how ignorant the assessors are - I have 2 grapevines running parallel with less than the recommended space between them but the assessors classed the gap as uncultivated :BangHead:.
Maybe next year I'll leave the pruning until after they've gone - then they'll accuse me of not cultivating the vines properly :violent1:.
Seems like if you can't make the place look like Gardeners World then they will find a way to lean on you...
As far as I'm aware, all the relevant Acts concentrate on productivity (I call it microholding) - nowhere does it ask for the tidiness of a knot garden - or the sterility of same for that matter.
Cheers.
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75% here, I think it's the usual.
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We keep chickens on one of our plots (half plot). What with the chickens and the fruit trees, the compost bins and the potting tables, we've only got perhaps a quarter actually growing vegetables in beds. But the council allotments people are quite happy. We did notify them about the chickens when we started.