Update on 2026 Plot Inspections and revised Welcome Pack for 2026

You will recently have received an email from Woodley Town Council (WTC) announcing its new Allotment Plot Inspections Policy.

The Committee’s Plot Inspection Team will be using this policy as the basis for this year’s inspections, which will begin during the week commencing 11th May 2026.

To help tenants better understand what this means in practice, the Committee has updated its document “Plot Inspections – What are the Criteria” (attached), in line with the new WTC policy.

We hope this updated guidance will be helpful and will support tenants in meeting the inspection criteria. In particular, we encourage the use of the recycling schemes that the Committee has introduced to help improve the overall standard and appearance of the allotment site.

We have also updated the 2026 Welcome Pack (attached). Although this is issued to all new tenants via WTC, we felt it would be useful to share the latest version with existing tenants on our mailing list as well.

Click on either of images below to download your own copy of each document.

We welcome any feedback on these documents. Please reply to this email and we will respond as soon as possible.

Many thanks &
Kind regards

Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee

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