Just registered

[Bex3]

I have just joined and am in the process of getting an allotment. New to all this allotment stuff!!!! I am sure that I will be a regular asking for lots of advice.
So here is my first question - The 2 allotments that are available are very overgrown (of course!). They both have derelict sheds that are beyond repair!! Will the council clear them or will it be up to me? I am in Lincoln.

[Bex3]

[manicscousers]

hiya, bex3.nice to meet you, we're on a private site so can't help, sorry  :(

[Emagggie]

Welcome Bex3. Sorry I can't help with your questions but someone who can is bound to be along shortly.
Good luck with the plot when you get it. Lots of good advice to be had here.........listen, that sounds like Star's kettle boiling.... ;D

[caroline7758]

Only way to find out isask your council- they are all different. Ours cut the hedges and that's it!

[Bex3]

Been trying to get hold of someone but the lady is on holiday for 2 weeks!!

[Bex3]

I am going at the weekend to take pictures, so I will ask someone then.  :)

[star]

Hiya Bex, Kettle's boiled.....tea or coffee?....milk?....sugar?............Jaffa cake?

Welcome aboard ;)

Good luck with the shed removal, some of the wood may be good enough for cold frames or something else really useful.

[Bex3]

I am having a cheeky glass of red wine!! Got a few books to read as I am starting from scratch I thought I had better research and get a plan on the way ;D

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Hi Bex,

our council will clear for people if they are badgered a great great deal, but it's a bad idea - they send a digger in and scrape several inches of soil off, and dump it in the hedge. takes years (apparently) to get back to normal. Year before last I dug loads of soil out of the hedge to spread over our plot

[Tohellwithweeds]

hiya bex where in Lincoln are you as I'm in Lincoln on the boultham park site and the answer to your question is  big NO the council wont clear any of your rubbish as when i got mine it was over grown and when i asked they said no funds available and its Lisa turner you need

[Bex3]

I think have got alot of work in store!!! everyone says I am crazy but I am sure it will be worth it

[star]

;D

Star I WANT MY COFFEE  ;D

Ok, ok Im on it..................watch this lot Bex, they'll have you runnin round in circles :-\

Did you want jaffas with that m'lud? ::)

[Bex3]

It is the Boultham Park site I have been looking at. I can,t remember the plot numbers

[star]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D @ you Tom. You'd need a JCB to higher me 8)

[Bex3]

Don't you fancy a glass of wine instead ::)

[Tohellwithweeds]

when i took my plot on i thought that my site was the hall drive site but it isn't is the boultham park site and the ones that are on boultham park road are the hall drive site confusing isn't it but I'm on the site that hasn't got the shop on it so is this the same site as you??? if it is its a great site and the people are really nice and we are allowed chickens so are you going to have any ???  

[star]

Bex.....you're a good 'un :D. Mines a red please. I need it specially as it looks like Im digging a plot with a trowel >:(.

You wouldn't have had jaffas Tom if I'd known! >:( (AND I put 6 sugars in yer coffee, but I didn't stir it, so there :P)

[star]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Bex3]

Yep the plots I have be looking at are at Boultham Park site - the without the shop, I'll wait until I have my head round all the growing stuff first - then maybe chickens later!!!

[The Amateurs]

Hi, We're on a council site in Leicestershire (which is committie ran) and they've just started providing a Skip which we can use to dump our unwanted stuff in, this has been fab as we've been able to get rid of some old shed remnants from when we had to take ours down.

It may be worth posing this as an idea to your council too ??

Cheers