On 15/11/2013 14:03, David Hill wrote:
On 15/11/2013 13:47, Spider wrote:
On 15/11/2013 12:18, Bob Hobden wrote:
"kay" wrote


Derelict land in Glasgow used as community allotments for the last
three
years have been destroyed by owners without warning, so that
allotmenteers were unable to retrieve plants and materials.

'Govanhill's guerrilla gardeners find their waste ground allotments
bulldozed | UK news | theguardian.com' (http://tinyurl.com/kb4erwo)


The gardeners knew it couldn't last but for the developers to destroy
everything without notice is ignorance beyond belief. What message are
they sending the locals? If they want local help or cooperation from the
locals in the future they have destroyed any chance now and by
alienating everyone possibly made their own job more difficult.
Stupidity and short sightedness doesn't come close.



Indeed. The landowners may have followed the letter of the law, but
hardly the spirit of the law. To all intents and purposes they have
(allegedly) vandalised or stolen crops et al belong to the gardeners. It
would not have been hard to post a warning at the site to indicate that
development was due to proceed. The gardeners using the site could then
have removed their crops and equipment.

By law (assuming that Scottish law is not vastly different to ours in
this regard), there must have been at least one planning notice posted
in the vicinity when permission to build was being sought. It would not
(as a local) be hard to learn when this permission would run out.
Assuming this was the case, it might be argued that the gardeners should
have known when the land would be required by the owner/developer. All
this notwithstanding, it was a despicable thing to do without any form
of warning.

I hope the gardeners get their new allotment site in time for next
season.


Give notice and all the protesters and green weirdos would have been out
in force.
Jock probably went in with his machine and the attitude "it's more than
my Jobs Worth to leave anything".
Now the ground is clear they can apply for planing with no chance of
anyone saying that the ground is being used for anything.



Yes, David, you may very well be right. Such a waste, though, of the
crops and any good feeling that may have prevailed had it been done
differently.

--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay