waiting list!!!

I am really annoyed.
Just called local allotment secretary and he told me there is a 2 year waiting list. 2 YEARS.
I am most annoyed because he said there is more land set aside for expansion but the council have said they have run out of money.
This years budget started on April 1st ish, so how come they ran out so quick.
He has 60 people on the list.
The government is constantly telling us to go green and yet when we try,we cant.
Looks like it more gro bags and buckets for the foreseeable future.

 

Some councils have waiting lists for a lot longer than two years not very good at all check and make sure they have spent their budget maybe they spent very little on allotment allocation

 

Hi samuelcat. It's also worth keeping on at them, it's worked for me in the past. I was told there was a long waiting list, then not long after I was offered a choice of 4 ! So, don't lose heart JUST yet, you never know
Cheers...freddy.

 

I'm on the waiting list here too - its a 5+ year wait in these parts! I tried to get one in the next borough along as there is only a 6 month waiting list there, but unfortunately they wont let me :-( I juts put in a call every couple of months and check. I also hope that by the time they get them, people will have moved and that will knock people off!

 

Isn't there some sort of bylaw whereby if enough peoiple got together and requested it the local council are obliged to provide them with land-I'm sure I saw something about it on Good Ol' Hugh Fearnley Whittingstalls programme last year.

 

your correct :thumb::thumb:

 

A few miles from me you can walk straight into an allotment, you might not have any veg left after the local kids have been on it though.

 

SO, by adding your name to the list I wonder how that squares up with this bylaw then. Sounds like something dubious to me-but then I am quite cynical about local councils and their subversion.

 

I think by far you are best being on a Council waiting list for an allotment as sadly private run sites could well be corrupt (at least our site is) as on ours you have no chance of getting a plot unless you know someone on the committee or someone who already has a plot.

We were only offered our first plot because the guy from the committee thought we wouldn't be crazy enough to take a plot on that hadn't been worked for 30+ years but crazy is my middle name and needless to say we proved the guy wrong. We were given a chance to take on another plot last September which is now just as good if not better than the plots that have been worked year after year for the last 20 years +.

Don't give up keep going to visit the site and it will show them that you are really serious about wanting a plot and you never know you just might be offered one sooner than you think.Hel.xxx.

 

Long shot that there is anything anywhere near you, but you never know!

http://landshare.channel4.com/

Or take a strimmer round and strim all the abandoned plots and send the allotment association Before and After pictures with some choice words. Send a copy to the local paper too

 

Thankyou to everyone who answered.
I might get onto my local MP, it could be a way for him to pay me back some of the funds he got for a loft conversion !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Maybe your local MP has a allotment and has claimed expenses for it agh

 

Don't know if this will actually help but sometimes having registered your interest in a specific plot on a site will do more than just waiting. Go to the site and ask the tenants if they know of anything coming available, then badger the council about that very plot.

 

A VERY good suggestion that :thumb:

 

Others will be bored of hearing this, but we started in March this year using some land at our local (country) Pub which had been laying fallow for 30+ years and was just overgrown with every weed imagnable. Had a chat with the Landlady to ask whether we could create an 'allotment' and she was delighted at the idea. Mrs Doogle has designed and implemented the 'formal' Pub garden, which is quite small and mostly lawn, and we have an agreement that she will continue to maintain that free of charge in return for the use of the land. Also, we will 'share' the produce so the Pub can include freshly picked vegies in their food offerings.

Potentially a "Win-Win" situation all round.

Now, are there many country Pubs around Peterborough with a bit of 'spare' land......