The results are in for this year’s best plot Competition. Congratulations and thank you to all the tenants who participated. We will pass on your awards as soon as possible.
Best Plot Competition – 2025
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Community BBQ – Sunday 27th July
The weather held up for our first Community BBQ on the Memorial Plot (F30) on Sunday, looking forward to the next one. We also handed one of the awards for this year’s Best Plot competition.
Thank you to everyone who attended and to the Committee for all the work in organising this event.
Community BBQ this coming Sunday, 27th July.
Here’s a Special Bulletin update about the upcoming Community BBQ on the Memorial Plot this Sunday, 27th July.
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All about Ponds, Fences, Trees & Plot Borders.
Please find below a short Special Bulletin about Ponds, Fences, Trees and Plot Borders.
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Plot Inspections – What are the Criteria?
As you will already know, the WATA Plot Inspection Team carry out plot inspections on behalf of Woodley Town Council (WTC) on a regular basis. The next plot inspections will be carried out in early September.
You might not know that over 100 plots failed the last plot inspections for various reasons from not having plots numbers to low cultivation figures, rubbish on the plot, right up to completely unkept/worked plots. There are currently 61 people on the waiting list ready to take on a plot!
Below you will find the back section of the recently updated 2025 Welcome Pack that focuses solely on Plot Inspections and what the criteria the plot inspection team are looking at during a plot inspection.
This document contains an expanded description of the Tenancy Agreement that we all have signed in January 2025 and like any other agreement that you sign, there is a level of expectation that you are agreeing to its requirements for renting an allotment on this site.
We know that there may be various reasons that some tenants are unable to comply with the tenancy agreement requirements through ill-health, changing personal circumstances such as finding a large plot too much to work. We also understand that not all tenants have enough time to visit their plot every day. Those that we know about are given some leeway during the inspection process, those that we don’t know about, probably fail the inspection.
As mentioned above 100 plots failed the last plot inspection in June! There are 61 people on the waiting list, there are only currently 5 vacant plots available. WATA is working with WTC to improve the inspection criteria and shorten the process of review of plots that fail inspection.
The Committee believes that all plot holders really do want to see a better looking and more productive (cultivated) Allotment site. We hope that by issuing this document, it will help all tenants better understand what they signed up to in the 2025 Tenancy Agreement.
If you have any comments, feedback or questions then let us know by replying to this email.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Click on the image to download a copy of the Plot Inspections – What are the Criteria?
H & P Trading Shed – Newsletter
For those who have not yet subscribed to this excellent newsletter from the H & P Trading Shed, click on the images below for their latest edition.
Community BBQ and Best Plot Competition
Please find below information about a Community BBQ and a Best Plot Competition.
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General Meeting – 23rd June 2025
As we have mentioned previously, we want to start having regular meetings on various topics with guest speakers, the first one is going to be held on Monday 23rd June.
Further meetings will cover subjects such as Bee Keeping, the advance of Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet across the UK & No-Dig to name a few. Let us know if you can think of a subject that we should cover.
So that we can get an idea of numbers, please let us know if you are attending by replying to this post. You can download a PDF copy of the agenda by clicking in the image below. See you there.
New Images from Tenants
Check out these images from one of the tenants on Row B. Click on each images to see high-res image in our Picture Galley page.
Do you have some images you would like to see in our Picture Gallery, then send them to readingroadplots@woodely-allotments.org.uk and we will upload them for you.
We have just published our revised 2025 Welcome Pack
This contains a lot of handy hints and tips for those taking on an allotment for the first time. There is also a section at the back that deals with Plot Inspections – What are the Criteria? which expands on what is in the Tenancy Agreement that we all signed at the beginning of 2025 and will hopefully explain what is behind the Plot Inspection thinking.
Please click on the image below to obtain your own PDF copy of the 2025 Welcome Pack.
Many thanks
The WATA Committee
Woodley Allotments Tenants Association at Reading Road 