The apparatus installed on PPA site last spring turned out to be very useful and helpful, and led to PPAA’s being able to report serious offences, along with evidence identifying the offenders. They were also able to address specific acts, such as fly-tipping by identifiable plot holders. Furthermore, some plot holders who’d been the victims of persistent vexatious interference with their plots noted that this had also stopped during this time.
Sadly, but perhaps predictably, that apparatus itself has now been stolen, and – equally dismally – some plot holders report a resumption of disturbance to their plots. Fortunately the devices weren’t greatly expensive, but nonetheless such offences are a very unwelcome nuisance.
Given the possible implications of these facts, from now, on neither the nature nor the siting of surveillance equipment will be announced, and these’ll likely often be discreet and vary.
There’re adequate notices outside the gates and around the site to comply with e.g. privacy laws in these things.
PPA Website Team
This all sounds very complicated. Is it actually plot holders or somebody from outside the gardens?
LikeLike
Hi Frank, it – if you mean vandalism to people’s plots – could be one, or the other, or both, but we’ve good reason to believe that it’s other plot holders. Perhaps the new measures will offer conclusive evidence.
LikeLike