hi all,
just as i thought my problem i had a while ago with the council and a single person complaining about noise was gone it has reared its head again - but from within the walls themselves!
to cut a long story short, a neighbour who lives alonside the private allotments im on complained to the council about cockerel noise. They came out and tested and sent letters to all plot holders with cockerels threatening a £5000 fine if we didnt remove the lads. I was in a far field and argued my case saying that mine could not be causing the problem, that i was happy to reduce numbers but would not remove all my cockerels.
the 3 people in the near field removed theirs and the council were happy and said that they would not retest for noise. Horay i thought!
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Unfortunetly the self elected chairman (who i have diagnosed with 'littleman syndrome') has taken it upon himself to rally the self elected 'govening body of the committee' his idea to run the allotments (even though they were fine without a committee) of which none keep poultry. He has now told me that he and the committee have decided that there will be no cockerels on site. My argument to him was Why? Why if the council are happy that the noise is with in the limit? His reply, the committee can decide on what rules it puts in place?
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Does anyone know of a way around this, i will argue my corner probably without success but it would be nice to fire something at him, is there any law, by law, legality anyone can think of that i can contest it so i dont have to bow down to this little dictator!!
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i really dont want to loose my plots and if i had to then i suppose i could manage without my boys, but i breed from them and it wont be the same.
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advice anyone please.
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