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Comrie Allotments Association

James Grieve apple tree planted by "Jock" - May 2009

The Comrie Allotments Association was formed and formally constituted on 28th of August, 2008. Everyone who had applied was allocated one of the 30 plots. Some people asked to have half plots. The layout of the alotments can be seen on this Aerial Overlay Map The numbers start in the South West corner next to the units 106 and 107 and go up in threes.

Planning permission, which would take the ground out of military use, eventually came through in October, 2008, but with conditions which are now mostly resolved. The main issues are "lead contamination" from bullets, and ash thrown out from the many coal burning stoves used for heating in the huts. The local council's contamination officer appears to be satisfied with the soil samples sent in, but there is no word yet if the conditions are lifted.

Association Secretary Marilyn and plot holder Jean visit the site it early March 

Pegging out the site is complete now that the contractors have finished the hard standing for access and laying the water pipes.

To Plough or not to plough. For those who elected to have their plots ploughed we were unable to get this done in the autumn as hoped, but now that spring has arrived the majority of plot holders decided not to plough. Reasons for this are mainly about the relatively thin layer of soil and the rather poor quality revealed by the soil tests. Most plot holders are now looking at ways of importing good soil and compost. We hope to have compost delivered by Perth and Kinross Council from early June 2009. 

Waiting List
Almost everyone who applied has been allocated an allotment, so the waiting list is empty at the moment (June 2009). If you are a Comrie resident and wish to apply, you can join the waiting list for the princely sum of £5 paid to the Comrie Allotments Association. If you have an email address, you will then be able to follow developments at the allotments site via the regular news letter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruth Graham successfully masterminded the complex issue of allocating the plots as they were pulled from the hat. It was no mere chance that everyone who had applied received a slip of paper with their plot number, a copy of the constitution and a map of the site.

Join the Allotments Association Mailing List and receive news by e mail!

To join the mailing list and receive the latest updates via email, please complete one of the forms below:   This system is currently out of action. Emails are being sent out from a manually operated list in the meantime.

New User

Your email:
Your name:
Select a list:	Plot Holders - Allotments Association members

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Existing user
(if you already receive the CDT newletter)

Email Address: 

 (Please note there is small problem with this form which will be fixed ASAP. But if you are willing to do a bit of hacking, there is a way round the problem. If you are already a member (and you have typed in the same email address as your main membership) you will receive an email with a link to the newletter sign up page. The link does not work - at first!! To make it work, just delete the "amps;" from the link URL in the location bar. Leave the ampersand itself, just remove the letters and the semi-colon. This is how it should look - the uniqueid will be different of course. but the &amps; are gone, leaving just the &

http://www.comrie.org.uk/index.php?mact=NMS,cntnt01,usersettings,0&cntnt01uniqueid=xx&cntnt01returnid=170

If you succeed with this work-around you will qualify to to be a fully qualified whiz operator, and you will receive a free gift.)

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