On Friday, November 15, 2013 2:03:23 PM UTC, Dave 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.


Yep, you beat me to it. If the owner had done the right thing and said I want it back, you can have it another season, to give you time to grow anything planted, harvest and replant somewhere else, I don't think he would have been repaid with the same kindness.

Yep, protestors and legal challenges (someone would probably fund them), dragging it on and costing money.