AGM vote
Readers are reminded that the vote closes at 1400 this Sunday, 22nd June. Every named plot holder is entitled to participate. (If there should be any sceptics, as to the reliability of the count, then they’re advised to take a screen shot of the confirmation page, which shows after voting.) The AGM minutes will be updated to show the result. That is, there won’t be a separate notification.
New Tenancy Agreement Consultation
The Council have asked that all plot holders be reminded that this consultation is still open.
They’ve had a few hundred responses, but to be really meaningful it should involve a majority of plot holders, and as it stands they’re a long way short of that.
Wilful damage
There have been, sadly, at least three cases of frankly sick-in-the-head vandalism on the site recently. In one a glass-panelled shed door was smashed in (it wasn’t even locked), in another a greenhouse was very seriously damaged, with many panes knocked out or damaged, and in the third a rainwater container, newly installed by the poly tunnel was pierced. In all cases, the people subjected to this made very speedy repairs, and with outstanding calmness.
It could have been the work of one or more bored or wantonly destructive children, but if it were that of an adult, then questions do have to be asked as to their sanity.
(If there have been any other cases, then apart from reporting them to the police it would be helpful for those affected to let PPAA Committee know too.)
Whether it’s related or not isn’t known, but a PPA gate key was found on the track near to one incident. If it were a bona fide plot holder’s, then we’d have expected a request for another key, but so far that hasn’t happened, and it’s some days now.
Scrap metal collection, fly tipping
Any scrap metal can be left with the pile in front of the blue shipping container at the southeast end of the site, but please, nothing else. A volunteer from Cardiff Rivers Group collects scrap metal and it can be sold to raise funds. However, there is no collection at all for any other waste materials.
Someone has taken to leaving scrap wood, and there have been other materials such as plastics left too. This is simply fly tipping, and so must stop, anywhere on site. As our tenancies state clearly, the plot holder is responsible for removing all of their rubbish from site, and leaving it anywhere else puts their continuing tenure at real risk.
Thanks everyone.
Planting out of pollinator-attracting flowering shrubs
These shrubs have now grown to a point where many are ready for planting out. Four plot holders have kindly offered to help with this work, and so we invite them and anyone else interested to get in touch to organise this.
What’s envisaged is the clearing, weeding, and mulching with a weed-suppressing layer of manure, of the verge immediately to the right and beside the car park at the Western Avenue gate, and the same for the triangle of land by the derelict cubicles at the end of Road Seven.
Once that’s done, suitable specimens from among the several dozen hypericum hidcote, sambucus nigra, and two varieties of hardy fuchsia that we have can be planted there. (We also have some native elder and quite a few abelia – which flower for months and the bees love – but these need further growing.)
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