Damage to Main Fence On Old Coach Road

30th Oct 2018 by Dogbury

If anybody saw what happened or has knowledge of how our main security fence has been so badly damaged it would be helpful to know. We believe it happened on Friday 26th October after 1pm. It is hard to miss, so if you saw the damage or didn’t but left the gardens on Friday afternoon, it would be helpful to know what time you were there and if you saw the damage. If you have any information at all please contact me.

Jackie
07931950950

THIS IS BEING PUBLISHED FOR A SECOND TIME DUE TO A FAULT ON THE FIRST CIRCULATION

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Garden Fires

30th Oct 2018 by Dogbury

As is traditional you are allowed some extra burning time over the Bonfire period.  As Bonfire night itself is on Monday 5th you can have fires from Saturday 3rd through to Sunday 11th, which is the normal burning Sunday.

However, please be aware of those around us who will be at work during the week so please restrict daytime burning to small fires, if you need to set fire to a larger bonfire please do it in the evening when bonfires for fireworks night will be burning as well. As usual please don’t burn anything that will cause excessive smoke, especially green woods anything wet and certainly nothing toxic e.g plastics, roofing felt etc.

As always I would point out that if complaints are received about fires it is the person who has lit the fires, not the association who will liable for a large fire.

Please be extremely careful and make sure you are working in the safest way possible, preferably not on your own and that hazards have been removed before you set light to a fire and that you are not using exploding chemicals, such as petrol as an accelerant.

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Allotment Rent Increase

3rd Oct 2018 by Dogbury

The Nottingham City Council want to substantially increase allotment rents to help cover their expenses in running the allotment service due to cuts in overall funding by Central Government to Councils in general.  Yesterday they sent an email and poster inviting people with allotments to have their say by filling in an online survey/questionnaire.  The link to this survey is as follows:

Nottingham Allotment Survey

Push the big orange button when you access the above link.

YOU ONLY HAVE UNTIL THE 14TH OF OCTOBER TO ANSWER THIS SURVEY SO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN EXPRESSING YOUR VIEWS TO THEM YOU WILL NEED TO GET ON WITH DOING IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

It should be noted that as things stand this proposal concerns direct let sites, however, it will have an impact of association sites like ours in due course.

The body of their email to allotment associations was as follows (the survey link is in there too).

 

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Dear Leasehold Allotment Association Secretary or Association Council Contact,

I am emailing you as our records show that you are listed as one of your allotment association contacts in our database. In this instance I am emailing all association contacts, as well as secretaries, to publicise the continuing consultation on changes to allotment rent rates. If you no longer represent your association please let me know and I will amend our records accordingly.

The Allotments Service has previously asked for the views of allotment associations as part of the ongoing consultation on Nottingham City Council’s proposals to increase the direct-let allotment garden rent rate and make changes to fees, charges and tenancy conditions. Nottingham City Council’s Allotments Service is extending the consultation to welcome the views of leasehold association allotment-tenants, other gardening bodies, and citizens on the current proposals.

Please find information on the proposals and online consultation survey at the link below.

https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/engage-nottingham-hub/open-consultations/allotment-rent-rates-and-changes-to-tenancy-conditions/

We would be pleased if you could publicise this consultation with your site’s tenants and explain how these proposals could affect your tenants on your site in the future.

With your permission, we would like to erect a poster on your site gate. We would be pleased if you could also put a copy attached on your notice board.

I will also send an email shortly that can be forwarded on to your tenants.

If tenants require information by post please ask them to call 9152727 and leave a message requesting a consultation pack that includes their request for consultation materials, site name, name, address, and phone number.

The closing date for the consultation is Sunday 14 October 2018. Please be aware of the short window of consultation with this final group of allotment users and others.

As an association, if you wish to email any further views or require information by post please contact the Allotments Service at allotment.office@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or on 9152727.

Regards

Alex Begg

Allotment Officer
Parks and Open Spaces
Neighbourhood Services | Commercial and Operations | Nottingham City Council
Woodthorpe Grange, Woodthorpe Drive, Nottingham, NG5 4HA
T: 0115 9152727 M: 07538 225011
(Working days: Monday to Thursday)
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/parks
facebook.com/nottinghamparks

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They also included a poster they want to distribute as follows:

Public Consultation A4 Poster

Jackie.

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Rent Reminder

26th Sep 2018 by Dogbury

Just a note to remind those who have not yet paid that all rents need to be paid by 1st October. There are a couple of you who have still not paid who have been unable to comply with the tenancy agreement this year so if you are thinking of giving the allotments up please contact me as a matter of urgency so we can make some decisions. If you are struggling to pay, again contact me, please. If you have not paid by the 1st of October then the tenancy will end and you will need to return your keys and remove tools and rubbish.

Thanks

Jackie

07931 950950
jackiemedcalf@hotmail.com

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Burglary Update

24th Sep 2018 by Dogbury

For some reason, we had a glitch with the last post so I am adding it again.

Today we have recovered a small generator and a jigsaw which we presume were stolen during the burglary at the weekend. No one has told me that these have been lost so if you are missing one or both or know someone who has please contact me. Also, it’s obvious that our friends were picking up tools and equipment from one garden and then leaving them in another so if you have found yourself with something that is not yours please let me have it and i will attempt to get it back to its rightful owner.

Jackie

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The Burglars Came Back

23rd Sep 2018 by Dogbury

For the second time in two weeks, we have had intruders on the gardens, this time they seem to have been more systematic, it’s presumed they came in over the railway gate and worked their way down the gardens including the brick building.  We know things have been taken and discarded presumably when they have found something more interesting and have now stolen some valuable items.  They will come back because they have not been in everyone’s gardens yet.  Take home anything of any value now!   Report thefts to me and to the Police.  DO NOT LEAVE THE GATES OPEN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.  Challenge strangers safely, if they don’t know the secretary’s name they should not be on the gardens.

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Community Work Day Sunday 16th Sept 2018

13th Sep 2018 by Dogbury

If anyone has some spare time on Sunday there is plenty to help out with. Harry’s old gardens and another derelict one wants hacking back so it is ready to let. I am away this weekend so, what needs doing is ……..

As you go into Harry’s garden and look to your left the brambles want cutting back to the boundary corner where an opening in the hedge will be made and then following the hedge towards the top gardens at the back of the greenhouse. This is where a pathway will be going. There are a few rose bushes that need isolating ready to be moved. All the perimeter boundaries on the gardens need cutting back to fences or hedges and hedges trimming and cutting back. Plenty to do.

The other garden is open and behind the metal fencing about 6 up from the polytunnel/community room. Work in there is pretty obvious.

Come and help us because the likelihood of the probation service helping out now is pretty slim. We need to get these gardens up and running so they earn us money and do not just lie dormant. Many thanks to those who do help, and to be honest the people who actually turn out on these Sundays already do a lot anyway. There are over 65 people on these allotments an hour or two every few months is not a great deal to ask of you.

Jackie

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Burglary – Here We Go Again

7th Sep 2018 by Dogbury

After a long period of no crime being committed on the site, we have once again had an attempted burglary near to the main gates.  At the same time, there has been an increasing habit of people leaving the gates open and unattended in recent weeks.  It’s therefore probably no coincidence then that the two are almost certainly connected.  Once again please remember that site security is jointly everyone’s responsibility and in everybody’s interest for their safety too.  Unfortunately in the past once some thief has realised there are things to steal on an allotment site they usually come back and do it over and over again, until they are caught, hopefully, this will not be the case this time but we shall see.  We should not have to remind people to keep the gates closed and locked but plainly this is still not the case.  Please pass this information around to other allotment holders who may not see this notice on the website.

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