Now the new growing season has got under way again we’d like to draw your attention to the following:
Path Maintenance
A number of tenants have asked us recently about who is responsible for maintaining the paths around their plot. The main pathways and centre of the road are regularly mowed by PACA. The other pathways around your plot are the responsibility of you and your neighbouring plotholder to cut grass and weeds and give you access to your plot. For guidance we suggest you cut the path on the north side of your plot and your neighbour does the same. This should generally mean you look after one path, although if you’re the first plot in a row at the southern end of the site you could have to maintain the paths both on the north side and south side.
Site Road Edges
During the winter it was very wet and much of the road verge became rutted, If you bring your vehicle onto the site please ensure you drive it in the centre of the roadway to avoid damaging the edges of the road. If you have hedges alongside the roadway please also ensure they are cut well back from the road edge so that vehicles can get past safely without being forced over the verge on the opposite side of the road. The roadway is only around two metres wide so is unsuitable for large delivery vans. If you want something delivered by a vehicle over 1.8metres wide you should park it on the tarmac roadway at the southern end of the site and transfer the materials by barrow or a smaller vehicle to your plot.
Site Parking
Please remember that parking on the site road is limited to 20 minutes unless you use the disabled bay by the woodchip area. Parking on the access road is for loading/unloading only by small vehicles. This is to ensure that other cars, people with bicycles or wheel barrows and elderly plotholders can use the access roads without impediment. We are at present looking at adding one or two more disabled bays on the site and will let you know our proposals as soon as we can. These bays are for blue badge holders only.
Bait Boxes
We have a pest controller who visits the site every month to refill bait boxes on the site with a humane poison to attract and kill rats on the allotments and keep their numbers down. The boxes are black and about the size of a shoe box. The position of bait boxes is marked with blue paint at the beginning of the relevant plots. Please don’t disturb or move them. If one has been put on your plot path and you don’t want it there please let us know and we’ll ask for it to be moved.
Could you please respect all of the above when you visit the allotments as it helps us to maintain the site in good condition for everyone’s benefit.