allotments and your rights

[megan07]

i share an allotment with a lady and her daughter as my friend who used to share with me found it was to much for him and sold his poly tunnel to these girls who say they will pay half the rent which i have payed in october for the last two years myself ,i have a 22 f oot greenhouse and land also two small poly tunnels for my show leeks as i help to run my local leek show ,as i work night shift i try to go to allotment for 2-3 hours a day when the girls are at work but i need to start my seeds for vegetables tomatoes etc and they have not left me with room in greenhouse i am the named person on the rent book as i rent allotment from council but dont want to cause any trouble in getting use of my allotment . can any one advise me of my rights and how i can get them to move their gardening equitment

[Figi]

If you can't actually get to the allotment at the same time as the girls to speak to them, couldn't you leave a friendly note on the greenhouse door asking them ever so nicely if they could move some of their stuff so you can use the greenhouse for its proper purpose - which to my mind is not for storing tools!

[megan07]

thankyou figi but they are not storing tools etc they have all sorts of plants of the flower variety

[janetsflower]

If you are going halves on the allotment then they should surely only have half the greenhouse? I would ask them to contain their stuff to their half and maybe suggest they use staging to get more into their space f they have that much stuff, however it doesn't seem fair if they are using your greenhouse when they hae a poly tunnel of their own why don't you fill their poly tunnel with your stuff and if they object tell them its becasue you have no pace in your greenhouse. Sounds like they are getting more than half of the allotment to me if they have the space the poly tunnel is on all to themselves AND use of the greenhouse. Or what about asking them to go halves with you on another greenhouse, ure they won't want to but it might get the messgae across that you need some space in the exisiting one

[megan07]

Hello guys thank you for your advice i am going down to the allotments tomorrow morning as i know these girls will be there and i am going to have it out with them i do not like confrontation but enough is enough ones again guys thank you very much for your advice i will get back to you all after the weekend and let you all know how things have gone best wishes megan07

[janetsflower]

did you do it megan?

[megan07]

Hi Janetsflower thank you for getting back to me these girls are telling me that they have bought the greenhouse as well as the poly tunnel i know they are telling fibs because my friend did not sell the greenhouse to them so i will not lower myself and squabble like children with them so i am going to make an appointment with my local councillor whom is connected with the allotments and he will pay them a visit best wishes megan