Hello, I am new here. I just arrived from Google by stumbling upon
this thread about local council not allowing chicken at an allotment.
My situation is somewhat similar. The city council says the rules have changed in 2018, where they do not allow new applications to keep poultry. Their reason is that apparently there have been cases where poultry wasn't well taken care of, and they decided to stop allowing new applications.
What is infuriating is that they don't allow anyone new to keep any birds, but everyone who had them before this decision was made, can keep them. And so many people have birds in the plots near mine! The rules state that they are allowed to
even renew their stock, which I find unfair. People on nearby plots have not only chicken, but also non-egging birds like budgies.
So I have emailed them to ask if I could keep my quail there, trying to be reassuring they'll be well taken care of. The response was a plain no:
"from 2018 we do not take new applications". I keep mentioning application because before 2018 you could just apply to keep poultry - I guess they had that in place to keep track of who had poultry. I didn't have a plot back then, though.
I know a very little about the Allotments Act 1950 and from the thread I linked above, it seems that they can't set such rules. Is that right?
Does anyone have any advice on how to proceed to be able to keep my quail on the allotment?