Post by murrayc on Oct 7, 2021 11:12:31 GMT
There have been a number of petty thefts recently - fruit taken from a tree in a plot, a fork taken from an outbuilding, toilet rolls and hand cleanser kindly provided by a plotholder and placed in the loo vanished overnight! Impossible to believe any plotholder would do this and too minor and sporadic to be a serious planned burglary. We have had this problem before and suspect its linked to occasional bits of vandalism from outside.
This has been reported to the Town Council with a request for them to ask the Town Warden to include the site regularly in their patrols and to put a sign saying "Site under constant watch" or similar on the outside gate. Unfortunately access to the site from gardens on the land side or via the stream under the conduit is hard to completely restrict unless we have high walls. What we can do as individual plotholders is:
Always lock the front gates behind you, especially late in the day when someone may follow you in
Don't leave any valuable equipment such as tillers or mowers on the site for longer than necessary, even under lock and key
and if you do find items disturbed or missing, even if trivial, let me know or report it direct to Helen at Town Council.