Yes folks, that’s what it has cost PPAA to have the great heap of fly-tipping removed. That’s almost the entirety of PPAA’s annual Council grant. The contractors took twenty loads, and they say that around sixty tons were removed.
So the minority who fly-tipped have had this sum spent on them, rather than its having been used for the benefit of the many times more responsible plot holders who didn’t. Still, life’s often like that, but let’s hope that general vigilance for this antisocial lawlessness is improved by people’s considering these facts and figures.
Those who fly-tip define themselves as lazy – among other things – and so it follows that this affects what they fly-tip too. The material was largely the product of the type of weeding that goes with poor husbandry, that is, large root clumps, consisting mainly of earth, where the gardener couldn’t be bothered to shake off the soil. The soil won’t rot, and so a heap of it quickly builds. Accordingly, the source plot levels become ever lower season-by-season, and it’s a great pity that the material removed couldn’t have been used to restock the topsoil of such plots and to bring them up to a proper height again, but most of them now have new holders who are working them. The heap also contained a significant amount of general rubbish – old carpet, pallets, plastic, etc., and this had to be sorted and disposed of separately.
Whatever, it’s an unalloyed good and happy thing, to see the transformation of the part of site that used to be the heap, and its surroundings, and especially to see the plot’s tenants – for the heap was always part of a plot – get to work straight away on cultivating it. We wish them many years of happy and undisturbed gardening there!
Our thanks go to Wendy Gunter, PPAA Treasurer, for organising these works.
PPA Website Team.
