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.
Depends on your tenancy agreement. Everyone has different agreements/rules in place.
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.
75% here, I think it's the usual.
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.