March 2026 newsletter

Help needed!

The PPAA Committee – and no one’s getting any younger – are looking for fellow plot holders to join them in a few hours of volunteering, by making up a works party.

Help’s needed, to tidy two plots of debris, rotted wood, and rubbish, ready for a waste company to collect.

The date will be Saturday, 11th April, at 10:30. Hopefully, if enough people volunteer, then the work should be complete in less than two hours.

In accordance with recent Council instructions to sites, the cost of removal of the rubbish, by the waste company will, in the one case, be passed on to the departing plot holder, who refused to leave their plot in a tidy state (as required by the Tenancy Agreement, to which they’d put their signature.)

Everyone’s very welcome, and as the saying goes ‘Many hands make light work’.

Anyone willing to help should contact PPAA Committee.

Site access hours – a reminder

Tenants are reminded that our terms only permit access to the site between sunrise and sunset. The days are getting longer now, so that should allow plenty of time to do what we need.

(Our security cameras take good infra red pictures in the dark, and recently showed a tenant on site in the very dim twilight.)

Dogs

Dogs are allowed on site, but must be kept on leads or tethered at all times. Plot holders need to be confident, that their produce has not been performed upon by anyone’s pet.

New gate sign and post modifications

Tenants may have noticed the smart new sign on the Western Avenue end gate. Our thanks go to our Treasurer Wendy, for organising the sign writers to make this.

The stop post for this gate has also been modified by D&S Fabrications, to allow the gate to be opened a little further when necessary. (The manure deliveries require every inch of space. During the last one, the large trailer – which barely fits through the gate – made contact with the lock box, and stretched the gate. It was pushed and sledgehammered back into shape, but a repeat of this must be avoided at all costs.)

PPA Website Team