Rules for
Allotment Tenants
A. a) Ensure that the Tenant:
(i)
Does not use or permit the use
of the allotments for the purpose of any trade or business----
(ii)
Keep the allotments neat and tidy, clean, free from
weeds and well manured and otherwise maintained in a
proper state of cultivation and fertility and in good condition (and keep any
pathway or cart-track included therein or abutting thereon reasonably free from
weeds) ----
(iii)
Do not cause or permit any nuisance or annoyance to
any neighbouring property or allotment plot nor cause
or permit any obstruction or encroachment of any path or roadway set out for
the use of the allotments----
(iv)
Do not, without the prior consent in writing of the
Head of Leisure & Recreation, cut or prune any timber or other trees (fruit
trees excepted) upon the allotments and do not take or carry away there from
any mineral, gravel, sand or clay without the prior consent of the Head of
Leisure & Recreation----
(v)
Do not erect on the allotments, without the prior written
consent of the Head of Leisure & Recreation, any building or structure of
any kind whatsoever provided that consent shall not be refused under this
subsection to the erection of any building reasonably necessary for the purpose
of keeping hens or rabbits----
(vi)
Do not use barbed wire for a
fence adjoining any path set out on the allotments----
(vii)
Not to use the allotments for the keeping of animals
or birds without the prior written consent of the Head of Leisure &
Recreation except that nothing in this clause shall restrict the keeping of
hens or rabbits to the extent permitted by Section 12 of the Allotments Act
1950----
(viii)
Do not deposit or permit to be
deposited on the allotments, or on any adjoining land, any refuse or litter----
(ix)
Do not erect any notice or
advertisement on the allotments without the prior written consent of the Head of
Leisure & Recreation----
(x) Close and lock the gate or gates of the
allotments on each and every occasion
of use
(xi) Do not bring
on to the allotments any vehicles except for the purposes of delivering soil
fertilizers or plants provided that where the Council have provided a parking
area for any class of vehicle this term shall not prohibit its use for the
parking of vehicles of that class----
(xii)
Do not bring or permit to be
brought on to the allotments any dog unless held on a lead----
(xiii) Yield up the allotments to the Council in such condition as should be in
compliance with the terms and conditions of the tenancy relating thereto upon
the determination of such tenancy‑
b) Permit
any officer or agent of the Council at any time to enter and inspect the
allotments----
C) Permit the Council its servants or agents to enter
upon the allotments as and when required for the purposes of treatment of or
felling and consequent clearance of any tree over 20 feet in height----
d)
Keep all roads and footpaths
running through the allotments in a good state of repair and condition----
e)
Ensure that the prospective tenant receives and signs
two copies of the standard Lettings Agreement for the tenancy as provided by
the Council, one signed copy to be retained by the tenant as a record and to
return to the Head of Leisure & Recreation the second copy. No tenancy to
commence until such Agreement is signed, a copy of the Standard Lettings
Agreement being annexed hereto----
B. (1) THE
Council reserves to itself the right to terminate any of the allotment
tenancies by notice to quit and also the right to exercise the right of
re-entry and all other powers and remedies conferred upon them by the Allotment
Acts 1908 to 1950----
(2) This
Agreement may be determined:
(i)
By either party giving to the
other not less that three months notice in writing to expire at any time----
(ii)
By the Council at any time after giving one month's
previous notice in writing to the tenant if it appears to the Council that the
tenant not less that three months after the commencement of this Agreement is
not duly observing the conditions contained herein----
3.
ANY notice required to be given
by the Council to the tenant may be given by sending by Recorded Delivery post a
written notice signed by the Council's Chief Legal and Property Officer for the
time being and addressed to the tenant at their last known address or by
affixing the same in some conspicuous manner on any part of the allotments.