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Topic : The Beck and Allotments |
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| Peter |
We appear to have to pay the Environmental Agency for the privilege of cleaning up The Beck ourselves.....  Allotments: there are not enough, find out what STC are doing about it on Thursday (1 July) quoteMore information www.silsden.net/town_council/docs_10/10_meetings/STC_meeting_agenda_July2010.pdf |
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| jonno |
quoteWe appear to have to pay the Environmental Agency for the privilege of cleaning up The Beck ourselves..... appalling!! What a rip off! quoteAllotments: there are not enough, find out what STC are doing about it on Thursday (1 July) quoteApart from the clerk's lack of a spell checker (joking) I wonder who would really be interested in an allotment that potentially they could just about get up and running nicely (12 months) and then have to give it up again? |
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| Peter |
I was talking to a lady waiting for an allotment who was about 60th on the waiting list. She just wanted to be able to grow things but at the rate allotments became available she doubted if one would ever become available. Something needs to be done to improve the situation.  Perhaps there are large gardens owners can't manage, or would like a little help to maintain? Perhaps some allotments could be subdivided? Do you know of any suitable council land STC could use for allotments? |
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| HB |
I have been on the waiting list for 5 years now! I phoned last year and i'm still at place 37 in the que! i'm 29 so i might have one for retirement. I have even enquired locally if there is a farmers field for sale. |
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| hat |
there must be loads of people with large enough gardens who would give some of their land for a share of the crops. hugh fearnley-whittingstall set up a land share system - www.landshare.net/ there's plenty of council owned land around town that could be converted too - the memorial gardens, the flower beds at wesley place car park, bradley road green, the top of the playing fields... |
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| HB |
quotethere must be loads of people with large enough gardens who would give some of their land for a share of the crops. hugh fearnley-whittingstall set up a land share system - www.landshare.net/ Registered on there, I keep looking, well i might get one for my retirement (only 36 years, at the moment!) |
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| old_miner |
And what happens when all the allotment wannabies get fed up with digging in the rain, howing in the frost? Wait a few years and I reckon there will be plenty spare to go around. By the way, lettuce and Strawberries grow OK in a back yard. |
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| jonno |
We did the "grow veg in your back garden thing" ten years or more ago. It was good and we had some good crops but our kids had no-where to play outside. So we turfed it and have never looked back, it's a great space to relax and play in. So if we were to grow our own again we'd want a small plot somewhere that wasn't our back garden. Maybe just half an allotment. |
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