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Totally agree with Trevor.

Well, I have three half plots on two separate sites and I don't feel a bit guilty. On the site with my 2 half plots, over three years people have come and gone leaving wastelands and weed mountains behind them, while I have steadily dug and weeded and grown.

Three years ago, that site was almost empty. Lots of people have taken up plots over the last 12 months, and they seem serious. I am glad they are there because we have gone from an open field full of dog walkers, and bands of youths kicking our squashes about as footballs and stealing our bamboos to have mock battles, to a locked site that feels safe and secure.

I have earned my plots, and I wish the newcomers well.

People should not be forced to hand over allotments just because they have more than one.  If it was not for many of these people then many sites would of been sold off by now.  If they wish to hand one back then all well and good but they should not be forced to,  providing the plots are being well cultivated and used in accordance with allotment rules.  Whats next,  getting single plot holders to hand back 1/2 a plot....... 

I have two and both are fully cultivated, full of crops and used to their full potential.  I agree with Trevor, Macmac and Saddad.  I do not feel guilty about having 2 as both are well worked.  There are many people who have one or even a half plot that is overgrown.  Some just hang on to a plot without working it as a "just in case I decide to work it" attitude.  They do not want to hand it back due to long waiting lists.  As allotment supervisor on our site,  these are the plot holders I chase up, not those who are looking after their plots.

ones enough for me  im getting old

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