Landshare

Hello thank you for you kind advice
This is quite a long story, but basically A lady in a neighbouring allotment went on holiday and my Father in law offered to water her allotment while she was away. while she was gone three rows of her broad beans were going over.. So being the kind of man that goes above and beyond to help others.. picked her beans shelled them, froze them, then pulled up the dead plants and dug over the ground for her. When she returned he told her what he had done and said he would bring the beans to her... she was angry and said she was reporting him. My father in law then got a letter asking him to explain himself. He did this in writing, he then received a letter to say he had four weeks to remove all his belongings or the committee would have it removed and charge Ron for removal and storage of his property. Their reason for this was “theft of broad beans”
We as a family have fought this as far as we can as Ron is quite elderly and cant cope with it, we have also put a huge amount of time and money trying to fight it, but we have hit a brick wall as the allotment is privately owned and they have their own "rule book".
this is a very shortened version of events.. there have been letters and things that the committee have done that were intimidating, but there seems to be nothing that we can do.
All we can hope now is that we can find a land share in our area so that all his plants don’t go to waste.

By graciemoo on 04 November 09 | Report misuse

In response to my elderly father in law has been ordered off of his beloved allotment the commitee have given him two weeks to remove everything.. we have a range of berry bushes, and fruit trees, He has been ordered that everything must go, land is much needed.