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Allotment Stuff => Locations and Sites => Topic started by: Miss Tiggywinkle on April 07, 2004, 12:04:21

Title: Bloomin' useless council
Post by: Miss Tiggywinkle on April 07, 2004, 12:04:21
Hi all

Wanted to find out if ANY of you are within the auspices of Lewisham Council and if you have ever managed to find out about local allotments?  I have left messages - no response.  I ma not under the illusion that I'll get a lottie straight away, but to get on the waiting list would be good.  

In any event, how do I find out where they are....

Any help would be very, very gratefully received!  :'(
Title: Re:Bloomin' useless council
Post by: Muddy_Boots on April 07, 2004, 13:42:42
Hi,

Have you tried looking for local council website?  That's where I found a list of local lotties.  Best of luck :D
Title: Re:Bloomin' useless council
Post by: gavin on April 07, 2004, 19:35:52
Hmmm - their allotments information page hasn't been updated since 2001.

If you can't get through the direct number, the council's switchboard, or the regeneration directorate's number, visit a site on a Sunday afternoon and see if any of the gardeners  can help with contact information?

Good luck - Gavin
Title: Re:Bloomin' useless council
Post by: gilgamesh on April 28, 2004, 12:22:36
Find out who your local councillor is - especially if elections are due in June - and "make yourself known...."
Title: Re:Bloomin' useless council
Post by: MissBaritone on May 17, 2004, 14:51:31
I rang the council up, found out exactly where the allotment officer was based and what he was called. Went down to the appropriate council office and asked the very nice receptionist if I could have a word with him. He came down and after 10 minutes I had my lottie
Title: Re:Bloomin' useless council
Post by: gavin on May 17, 2004, 22:20:14
Good news - congratulations!  And all the very best for your new plot - Gavin
Title: Re:Bloomin' useless council
Post by: mellie on June 25, 2004, 15:23:46
You think yours is a bad council.
Down here in Portsmouth we have many uncared fro plots (nine on my row alone) but when people phone up the council to rent one they are told that the are 20th on the waiting list!!!
Does this make any sense or are they just justifying their jobs. >:( >:( >:(
It makes me sooooooo mad.
Title: Re:Bloomin' useless council
Post by: shiner on August 27, 2004, 14:53:41
i find myself in a similar position of not getting anywhere in trying to get an allotment in lewisham  :-[
i hope you got somewhere over the summer and wondered could you pass on any useful information to shorten this search of mine.
cheers i hope so  :)
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