Bob Hobden wrote:
"PtePike" wrote ...
My brand new allotment has been double alloted.

The local council gave me the plot in Feb. and my family and others
have worked very hard to get the plot into shape for sowing.
We have worked hard and have sown hard, sometimes to exhaustion.

We went up there this morning to see a plough turning in our hard
work. The council says that it is uncultivated and needs urgent attention
therefore the plot has been re allocated.

The plot is 10m by 30m and we had about a quarter of that seeded or
planted in order to concentrate on the other sq/m later as we can.

A council official was called and visited and she said it was
uncultivated and is now alloted to Mr.xxx.

After further investigation it has been found that this plot was
reserved for a school to teach rural science!!!

The local council have alloted me a new one as I was obviously the
tennnant.

This year for me now is f***ed with all my expectations of a harvest
gone from there, but I still have my home garden.

It really is heartbreaking.


They must give you notice of a bad inspection and time to rectify the
problems, check the small print. Someone at the Council, an employee,
mucked up and needs a good kicking from on high. Complain to the
Leader of the Council and your own Ward Councillor, you can find
their contact details on the Council web site. (probably .. the
Council name.gov.uk). That is disgusting and I would be spitting bullets
if it happened to
me, it was bad enough when we were moved off our last plot to make
way for a Park after years of improving the soil etc. Get the cost of
everything they have destroyed refunded at least and your new plot
cleared and dug, it's the very least they can do to compensate you
all.

My sympathies to the PtePike, this must be very upsetting indeed. But this
is what you get from communist central planning. Once somebody is "alotting"
you anything, it's not yours, it's somebody else's. You just have permission
to use it, and it can be taken away at any time as we see here.

If the State didn't "give away" "free" allotments, there would no doubt be
some market for similar small plots of cultivable land from private
rentiers, or for purchase. Then people would have a proper rental agreement,
and stuff like this couldn't happen. But "free" (that is, paid for by other
people) always drives out good, sadly.


Ian