New Tenancy Agreement consultation – update

A Place To Grow Your Own

About two weeks ago, Site Representatives and the Working Group received the Final Report from the Council on the Consultation that’s taken place. However, for the time being its contents aren’t to be shared generally. Recipients have until October 3rd to make any comments.

Whether, on the basis of the Consultation analysis, the draft Agreement will be significantly amended remains to be seen.

We appreciate that this post doesn’t convey many facts, but what is clear is that the process seems to be following the expected timetable, and as soon as more is known it’ll be passed on. It’s hoped that this will allow plenty of time for those whose plots don’t meet whatever new standards for cultivation etc. to bring them up to specification, e.g. by the increase of cultivated area, removal of newly-specified disallowed plantings, and so on, without being pressured by any limited grace period etc.

(The expected timetable is that the new Agreement will be finalised by the end of this year, so that a full year’s notice can be given to everyone regarding the change. The new Agreement would then apply to allotment years – starting Feb 1st – 2027 onwards.)

As previously mentioned, every one of us will need to sign the new Agreement if we want to continue with our plots.

PPA Website Team

4 thoughts on “New Tenancy Agreement consultation – update”

  1. It would be really nice if the volunteers committee would fight for tenants rights such as the right of burning 🔥 old debris. Ashes are good fertiliser even the right of cooking 🍳 a barbecue at the plot garden…
    More rights for the future 💪 🙏 not limitation and prohibition…

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    1. Hi Monica,

      At the Working Group some of us – including me – did suggest that the restriction on burning e.g. dry waste vegetation, prunings etc. be lifted. However, Justin Groves, the Council’s Ecology Officer, dismissed the idea, and management said that it would mean re-writing by laws, not just the tenancy agreement.

      We did have a tenant who insisted on having fires on PPA, and on windy days too, burning all sorts of materials such as plastics, which resulted in toxic fumes, black smoke etc. blowing all over the site.

      On reflection, since it would be hard to stop such reckless behaviour if fires were allowed, perhaps it’s as well for the restriction to remain.

      If it weren’t for the everyday presence of plastics etc. then the idea would probably be OK.

      (The Working Group discussions and Consultation are now over in any case.)

      Martin P, PPA delegate to Working Group

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  2. Riverside Community Garden seems to have gone through a slight dilemma. Riverside seems to be very directly linked to Cardiff Council.
    Whoever Cardiff Council are using are not proper representation for personal or community gardens. What do you think?

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    1. Hi Frank,

      I’m not the Site Rep or Acting Site Rep, and so I don’t deal with the Council over tenancies etc. or with general correspondence.

      I therefore don’t have any information which would relate to the opinion that you give, and nor is the Site Rep certain to read your post here either.

      If you claim to have evidence, which would suggest that the Council are in breach of their side of our Local Management Agreement, then perhaps the thing to do would be to inform the PPAA signatories to that, by using the message page on this website – which will email them. If, on the other hand, you claim that the Council are acting improperly for some other reason, then you’re naturally free to pursue that in your own personal capacity.

      Martin P,
      Admin

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