Letters sent to the Council. An allotment site has been found to be contaminated with industrial waste. The cost of improvement is estimated at over 300,000. Please send any information to Head Office. The Society has received a number of requests for advice from non-members in the following subjects.
Council intends closing site to cut costs.
Vacant allotments, enquiries for plots ignored since 1996. Tenant is subletting plot, but as no money changed hands the tenant claims he is not sub letting. Private site sold to developers to build a leisure centre 3-month notice given in accordance with the Allotment Acts. Derelict sites, Council refers enquiries to other sites so are keeping these sites derelict. Council advise tenancy will not re renewed in 9 years time.