Durham County Council Allotments

Submitted by A Brown on Fri, 31/01/2020 - 14:00

Many members will have seen the press coverage of the Council introducing new rules about allotments
Over the last week I have been discussing with a local councillor the implications of this
I now have in writing a list of answers to my questions,basically there should be no problem for existing tenants ,new tenants will be able to have pigeons,no licence for pigeons is required
One problem is that there is no joint tenancies of allotments so if the registered tenant passed away the Council have the right to evict any partners from the allotment
What the council does have is an arrangement to have 1 registered co-worker ,the process for doing this starts by the co-worker contacting the Council customer service staff on 03000 260000
Members need to be aware that some allotments might have there own associations with possible different rules ,and some allotments may be run by Town Councils again may have different rules
The Councillor I dealt with was very aware of the heritage of pigeons and allotments and hopes that this will continue

Alan Brown