On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:10:53 +0100, "Pete C"
wrote:

What exactly is your problem?

Last year I arrived at the allotment to find it had been destroyed by
a man with a petrol-powered strimmer. The man was still there and said
he had been told to clear all overgrown plots. I complained to the
chairman who said that he knew nothing about this man, and the man
agreed that he was working independently of the chairman but all this
was verbal. Incidentally after we confronted him he went and there
were many overgrown plots he had not touched.

We dispute that our plot was ever overgrown and if it was, they should
have had the courtesy to tell us and give us notice to clear it before
they did. They should have taken photos to show the alleged weeds but
they did not, so it is there word against ours.

So we had complained to the chairman, who was on our side but the
damage was done and there was nothing more we could do, so we carried
on at the allotment for the following months without trouble or
comment. Last month there was an AGM. I complained about this
vigilante cutting down my plot without notice nor authorisation.

I was then told that the committee had authorised this, contradicting
what they had said at the time, and that since I do not respect the
authority of the committee I would be summarily evicted. No right of
appeal, no notice, nothing except they would pay half the costs of me
hiring a rotavator to clear it.