This website recently published articles, which touched on the need to remove overgrown or non-permitted trees from plots, and on a like need regarding polluting materials such as tyres.
PPAA Committee thank those plot holders, who’ve been in touch to say that they’ll be taking these matters in hand, or to enquire, as to possible assistance. However, these numbers were small, and represent only a very minor part of the total number of such breaches of tenancy conditions across the site.
To save time therefore, PPAA Committee have approved a standard format Notice, to be sent to plot holders in these and similar instances. There’re a dozen or so plots where such Notices would presently appear to be warranted, but these just happen to be those of which PPAA are aware as it stands, and more will no doubt come to light when formal Plot Inspections begin for 2025 in March. (There’s general agreement across sites in Cardiff, that these Inspections were often happening too late to enable reliable processing by the Council within the prescribed seasonal window.)
These Notices will start to be sent out in the near future, so it’s important that PPAA’s email address not be blocked, nor its messages diverted to a junk folder. If they were missed – and no required action taken – then it’s possible that matters could – otherwise avoidably – be referred to the Council. Tenancy could, in principle, even be lost as a result too.
PPA Website Team
Again, I am lifting my arguments for putting stress on plot holders and stopping creativity.
STOP ✋️ causing problems and let people be creative… in the end, nothing is forever it’s much easier to destroy than building… a hammer can be used to destroy as well to build
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Hi Monica,
Tenants put their signatures to a judicially-recognised agreement, not to do certain things on Council land.
PPAA Committee officials have also signed a legally-binding document, a deed, which requires that they do all that they reasonably can to see that tenants comply with the terms of these Agreements (E.g. re tyres, Schedule 1, Clause (8), Local Management Agreement). If they derogated from that undertaking then, on the face of it, the Council could take legal action against them.
No one likes having to spend their precious, unpaid time doing this sort of thing, and it would be far better for everyone if we all simply did what we’ve agreed to do, and avoided doing what we signed to say we wouldn’t.
There’s plenty of scope for being creative within the terms of our tenancies. For instance, one could train honeysuckle over a wire frame, and into the shape of Donald Trump’s head.
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Tell that to the community garden centre are they a different type of tenancy?
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PPAA have already spoken to RCG about e.g. tyres, and they’re in the process of removing them, Monica, but your point’s perfectly valid. They’re plot holders very much like the rest of us.
The Council call their terms a Community Tenancy, however, and they appear to have some specific dispensations.
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