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The waiting list is so big in Hyndburn I think they will always find someone who will want one.

£200 a year is less than £4 a week, thats less than a packet of cigarettes

I think that if they had not frozen the rents for ten years, a mistake I think, that the increase from £39 to £200 would equate to about 17.7% each year for the 10 years. That is a high yearly increase.

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Seems possible to me,that the £39 rent was so cheap,some tenants didn't give a toss? To me a person should only be able to rent, if n allotment is in a reasonable state, Which is down to H.B.C. When they rent em out, How difficult must it be,to have a signed agreement, that the tenant is liable fer the upkeep?The rise to £200 is much to steep n people should not suffer fer incompetence.:rolleyes:

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It still boils down to the fact, What has Hyndburn ever done on those allotments, when they claim each one costs 240 a year to run, or is that to pay the wages of a paper shuffler.
Some bodies telling Porkies.
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Basically what i was alluding too.;)

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£200 a year, payable in one lump upfront, will remove from the list the families who really need an allotment.

Yuppies who can afford that usually have gardens at home where they can grow veg if they want to.

So I still say the waiting list will disappear.

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We often walk our dog around the Heys allotments. When I took her out today a took a few photos. I have attached them along with a sample HBC allotment tenancy agreement I found online.

Here are a few bits from it under "THE Tenant agrees with the Council" section. If you look at the pictures you will see the Council are not enforcing the agreements and letting some tenants make the allotment site into an eyesore.

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Which goes to prove my point, where has the magic figure of 240 quid per year come from, and what has the council ever done to justify that figure.
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Those photographs do reveal that some neglect and breach of use is happening.
I have read also the downloadable guide to tenants
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...ders_guide.pdf

It states 'poultry' - which geese are - so the photo showing geese does not expose a breach, yet the sample tenancy agreement mentions only 'hens'. So the info from the council is ambiguous. Geese are useful 'watchdogs' against foxes, which are prevalent.

As for the caravans - sometimes they are used for overnight stays, so they should not be tolerated.

Some of those woodpiles are overlarge. Sometimes in summer it isn't possible to have my windows open due the allotment fires. I once complained when the fire was next to the path which separates the plots from our flats. I suggested that the fire be set at the opposite end of the plot - only to be told that the smoke would damage the plants.

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If you read about fires it says small and in a container or something like that. On one allotment it looks like someone is getting ready to burn some old furniture and the damage caused by other can be seen. Maybe the increase in rent will pay for a full time officer who can start to address these problems.

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Maybe it would, but the question is,Why aint they "EVER" checked on these tenancies, Money aint always been tight.:rolleyes:

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Maybe the increase in rent will pay for a full time officer who can start to address these problems.
Its not a full time officer we need its proper accounting. Just found out where some of those fancy figures for allotment costs have come from, projects that are not really anything to do with allotments, have been included in the figures, one of them is for 20 odd thousand quid spent on a car park, another is a bill for 550 quid, repair to a tap, why should the allotment tenants be loaded with idiotic spending like that, theres probably a lot more when the budget documents are finally revealed.
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