Housing association turfing over OAP gardens

Norman_Castle

"We are always delighted when customers take pride in their neighbourhoods, but we always have to be aware that communal areas are for all who live there and not just for a few."


If its a communal area rather than separate plots its not "his" garden. If the area is divided it needs to be done with the agreement of others and divided equally. Has that happened here?

diggingdude

It could be worse they could be charging him to put it right again

csgohan4

Op you might want to change your signature to everyone else's garden need saving, just because one person has monopolized a communal garden, doesn't mean it's his.

HampshireH

Highly unlikely he would have any mention in his home tenancy agreement of this.

Davesnave

I expect the land is close to his house, but that's irrelevant if it's supposed to be an area with free access for the enjoyment of all residents.

No one doubts this is a shame when many tenants don't keep their gardens well, but if he's taken unilateral action and gained 20 years on a site that was never his to develop, he's done well.

The 'environmental reasons' might be that he's created H&S related probems, or a euphemism for the fact that it's not very beautiful. Either way, human interest stories like this sell local papers!

markin

Its not just him, many seem to have claimed a garden plot which defiantly makes me wonder if its a retirement block with garden plots included. Some nursing homes also have plots to keep residents busy and happy.


One of the comments said the local tv news covered it and he has had the right to garden this tiny spot of land.


Fortis have also stolen Sanctuary Park to build 37 homes, the other half currently covered in allotments will be next.

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/16495146.plans-for-37-homes-on-park-in-worcester-likely-to-go-ahead-despite-strong-objections/

gary83

markin wrote: »

Fortis have also stolen Sanctuary Park to build 37 homes, the other half currently covered in allotments will be next.

Except they haven’t “stolen” it have they? And sanctuary “park” isn’t actually a park either, it’s a bit of land Worcester acquired in the late 1930s intending it for future development, initially a crematorium. They put allotments on part of the site so it had a useful function, always saying it was temporary & they intended to build on it at a future date, they never gave the other half official park status.

If you had one of those allotments or bought in the area you should have known it wasn’t going to be a “park” for ever.

Only one person in this story that’s “stolen” land off everybody for the last 20 years

Marvel1

I would imagaine 2 scenarios likely to occur if say new residents within 2 years moved in:

1. The new residents assume the garden belongs to the resident and stay out.

2. New residents enter the gardens and he tells them to leave it's mine.

stator

It's just a small patch of nothing really

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sheepscombe+Dr,+Worcester/@52.2107311,-2.1895569,145a,35y,5.16t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4870f04a63d89503:0xfdc97b5a6ec71831!8m2!3d52.2105769!4d-2.1889736


If he owns the ground floor flat I suppose he could try and put in for adverse possession

diggingdude

The biggest problem is they let this go on for 20 years they should have kicked him off within a month