Hi.
Many of you may be aware of the long, ongoing, crazy saga of Skimmingdish allotments near Bicester Oxon... we had a fair bit of press earlier in the year when the church threatened us with legal action if we didn't leave. well, now the district council, the planning authority, has refused the application to build there, we need to keep the pressure up. Thanks to the team in Newcastle with their petition, we too have an online petition, which we'd be delighted if you would visit via our (partly refurbished but by no means finished) website: www.savetheplot.co.uk
thanks
FL
Have signed up FL! Pity that they ploughed through your plots with the digger. How would the Diocese feel if developers did that through one of their churchyards before any planning consents had been given? This is what happened at those church owned lotties in Somerset and that is what finally inflamed the lottie holders, and made them so angry that those previously not active were so enraged at the wanton vandalism to their plots, that they joined the fight and won
Good luck with it all. I'm fighting the church up here who are trying to turn a massive field into a housing estate. They've appealed to John Prescott. Wonder what his ruling will be. I can guess :(
I assume 'the church' is the Anglicans; it had better not be the Methodists!
Signed, Larry, and best of luck...
Lottie
Signed up....let us know how you get on..Good luck
Derek
Ditto ...
Derekthefox :D
signed earlier.
job done - keep us updated :)
Just signed it, keep fighting the good fight
Signed F L good luck...
All the best FL-just signed.
Sue
Hopefully we are featuring in the Daily Telegraph tomorrow, re the sad story of losing our plots. Took pic of me this PM over there, looking glum, fingers crossed it gets in ... Christine Walkden from Christine's garden (BBC2) has signed the online petition, and I have to say Monty is a top Don for all the support he has given us on this one over the past few months.
is it to late to sign
no. Not sure why they put by the end of 2006 on it, but there are still 11 months left. please sign and tell your friends too too...
not in telegraph today :( .. maybe monday?
hello i signed the potition my husband did too also my sister and four of my work colliegs ( for a bunch of carrots and a cabbage ) when ready how was that for you hope it dose some good all the best
Cheers! Latest is that it may be in tomorrow. :) If not then will prob not get in :(
:)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/30/nallot30.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/30/ixhome.html
nice quote from Monty:) You can sign the petition, if you haven't already, via www.savetheplot.co.uk
I've signed too. GOOD LUCK!
see pages 1-3 of this week's Garden News :). look forward to next week's letters page too!
just signed there now. best of luck.
Signed, R2D2 :-)
Quote from: fat larry on February 09, 2006, 08:08:18
see pages 1-3 of this week's Garden News :). look forward to next week's letters page too!
VERY nice grumpy looking pic Larry. Very atmospheric and i loved Monty's sentiment.
Let's hope this goes from strength to strength and that you win in the end.
Have read garden news and thought Montys comments were a bit unfair. Not EVERY church goer' thinks the closing of the allotments are a good thing. Some balance needed Monty...
I should think not, I'm a preacher and I think this is totally wrong. Mind you, I'm often at odds with the hierarchy. Actually, I could probably manage a sermon on it. I'm not sure whether it applies to Methodists or lay preachers, but there's an old law which says that a vicar can't legally be interrupted during the sermon. When they come to take possession, if it ever comes to that, I could probably manage to bar their way and preach an extra long one.
Thanks for the other Robert: they actually have possession as we received legal letters threatening dire consequences if we carried on tending our plots.
Monty's comments came at a particularly interesting time. It made me wonder: if he had said the same thing about mosques/synagogues/temples etc would it have upset a different set of people, and would those people who are upset by his view when he is talking about church, still be upset on behalf of other faiths?
Someone once said to me: offence can't be given, it can only be taken, which I'm not sure is totally accurate in the case of hardcore extremists whatever their unpleasant beliefs, but I see their point.
excuse dodgy spelling: should have said 'offer'!! Doh
All I can say is, I get upset whatever faith is being abused.
I can understand why Monty said the comment but it was just a bit unbalanced I thought. Dan :-)
Signed today. Good luck! busy_lizzie