:'( just to let you know my situation, i have been working a plot for the last year, I got it to work from my fiances cousin who had taken it on from a friend who didnt have the time to work it any more - well that friend has sold her flat and moved away from the housing association that runs the allotments. so i went to see the guy that runs the plots and is the care taker for the community housing and unfortunately even though he knows ive done a lot of work and got lots more i want to do he is having to put the plot out to people on the waiting list before he can say if i can stay on or not!
gutted doesnt describe it - not blaming the guy as he is only doing his job, but i had hoped that as i was the one that had been working it then maybe i could have kept it on. i understand that there are people waiting for plots (2 at this time) but there has been a plot unworked sitting all year and if you had a choice between an unworked plot or something someone has worked on all year - which would you take - 1st guess doesnt count lol
well i wont know for definate until the end of november as the rent is due at the start of the month and he has to send letters offering the plots to the 2 people on the waiting list before i will know whats happening.
totally at a loss what to do as ive just not long planted my spring cabbage and my leeks are coming along nice - well thats me had my moan, will let you's know how things shape up - wont be giving up gardening but will jst have to go a lot smaller scale in the back garden.
Not good. Not good at all. Our council has the same policy. If you are sharing a plot that is not registered to you, then you have no claim should that person give up the plot. It always goes to next on the waiting list. Only exemption to this is immediate next of kin such as father to son.
It's not what you want to hear I know but I think most councils have the same policy. You could try to approach the council and put your case forward.
unfortunately its a private site and its the guy ive been speaking to thats in charge, i am gutted but not bitter about it - dont think i will take on another plot at another local site as we dont plan to stay where we are for more than another 3/4 years (depending on the credit crunch) so think i will just turn my frustrations on the back garden and dig it to death lol
Fingers crossed the people on the list have lost interest!
fingers crossed
but there may be light at the end of the tunnel - seen this article on the scottish section of the bbc web site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7674311.stm
So that's reports from Scotland and Wales on this issue today, what's the English gvernment doing?
I'm so sorry, but if you got the plot third hand - from your fiance's cousin who'd taken it on from a friend - then you have no legal right whatever to the plot, however hard you've worked on it.
Under government legislation, no-one is allowed to sub-let (and that applies to private sites as well as council ones). But you weren't necessarily to know that. Whoever's in charge of your site should have picked that up before you took over.
A difficult situation. Best of luck. (And make sure your name is on the waiting-list in case things don't pan out.)
If it's any consolation, most secretaries would prefer a known gardener to take on a plot than an unknown name on a list. But we can't be seen to manipulate the waiting list!
Really bad luck. :(
Make sure you do go on the waiting list,you never know :)
what the guy at the community housing/allotments has done is take my number so once its been offered out to the people on the list he will let me know one way or another.
It's a bugger, but I've seen the other end of the no subletting rule. Someone on my site was voted off the committee, and the new lot took a hard look at the five largely derelict plots she claimed. Two were registered in other peoples' names, and one of the people concerned, when she was finally tracked down, turned out to have no idea she was supposed to have a plot!
But it's really bad for you.
Sorry if I missed it, but how long have the two people been on the waiting list? Is there any chance that your year with your plot could be regarded as you being on the waiting list in a rather informal sort of way, but working a plot to keep it clean or something, on the off chance, while you waited?
If the others have been on the list less than a year, you would then get 1st choice of a permanent plot, and guess which plot you would choose...... That might give the secretary an opportunity to let you continue with your plot without it looking like favouritism.
Just a thought. No hope if the people have been on the waiting list for longer than you have been working the plot.
well the other plot i mentioned has been laying dormant for the full year ive been working the plot so dont think they could have been on it that long
im not holding out much hope so have started to transplant evering thing back to my back garden, moved my 1st raised bed and compost bin today (yes in all that wind and rain, dedicated or what lol)
but will wait and see.
My heart goes out to you, it is a real disappointment.
I grow veg in my back garden, its a bit small but I get a decent crop.
Good luck ;)
In response to Caroline's "What's the English Government doing?" ..... you need ask???? :-X
Quote from: saddad on October 25, 2008, 08:23:30
In response to Caroline's "What's the English Government doing?" ..... you need ask???? :-X
Apart from spending your money for ya :'(
They're trying to cover up the way they've been giving our money to the bankers.
Any updates, Tartonterro?
Quote from: SamLouise on October 31, 2008, 13:45:31
Any updates, Tartonterro?
nothing as yet, but ive more 3 beds and will be moving more tomorrow to my back garden
well - phoned the caretaker/warden at the housing complex where i had my allotment - left a message to get hold of the access code for the barrier (no through traffic allowed) - and to ask about the plot - that was mid november and no answer to date - so as far as im concerned its gone.
lifted the last of my raised beds and my big compost bin and sad my farewells lol - no one there but the robin lol. might pop up in the summer to see some of the plot holders - promised one some sweetcorn seeds id grown last year - but getting down to growning in the back garden for the moment - but it wont stop me from being on here and enjoying the company.
Sorry to hear your sad news mate, keep phoning the council asking for a new plot,
how much room do you have at home for growing,
don't think me rude, but think about using grow bags, barrels, pots, archways, hanging baskets, trellis,the shed roof and the house walls as growing space if things are tight,
keep your chin up and place some pictures on here,
all the best
windy