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Posted By Stephen.Jones
Is it April 1st again...
From the Daily Telegraph yesterday
"An eco-warrior" who lives in a 7ft cave on his allotment in Brighton has been evicted because it does not have a fire exit.
The fire brigade carried out an assessment for the council, who decided that it did not have enough exits and a judge granted the council a possession order for the cave!
is nowhere safe...
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Posted By AHS
Thats very funny and sums up a good many things.
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Posted By TBC
They will have to place a re-possession order on all garden sheds, greenhouses and garages now.
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Posted By justgossip
Well the person doing the RA had done some research.
2000 years ago it was well documented that there was a lot of incidents involving cave fires.
To reduce the risk the population moved out into mud huts which had two exits.
On going abroad you will find that there are many people who have returned to living in caves but due to modern advancement there are no problems with only a very small risk of being smoked out.
In the UK things are different. We have rules.
the right to live free and un molested by goverment and all of its many agencies is strictly forbidden.
As the Daleks said.
YOU WILL OBEY
garry. just love friday
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Posted By martinw
While you are defending this guy's right to be the next Swampy, the council had a point in saying that another cause for concern was that the cave could collapse. I reckon the number of exits thing is a red herring.
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Posted By paulw71
so it didnt comply to the building regs then
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Posted By Richard Altoft
would it be too cynical to say it looks as if they wanted him out and they found a reason.As the guy involved was presumably not at work this is presumably a landlord and let premises issue (council own the allotments perhaps) rather than a RRFSO issue. I wonder if the sheds and greenhouses on the allotments have two exits ?????????
R
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Perhaps he didn't have the appropriate Hermit to Work.
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Posted By Graham Bullough
Presumably the guy had also been been using his allotment patch to grow vegetables. If not, it might have been easier for the council to have given him notice to quit on the grounds that he wasn't using the patch for its intended purpose. Demand for allotments has increased, especially with the onset of the credit crunch, and more councils are now rightly using their power to take back unused patches and give them to people on the waiting lists who are keen to grow veg.
Also, it's possible that the council's various rules for allotment holders may have included matters like not living at the allotment. If not, I bet the council's now changing its rules.
In addition, those of us who explore caves and mines could be pedantic and comment that it sounds like the guy was living in a hole he dug in the earth beneath the allotment rather than a true cave in solid rock.
Mention of a hole in the ground prompts a bit of Friday frivolity: Perhaps the guy could adapt the following line from the Monty Python stage sketch with Yorkshiremen arguing as to who had the hardest upbringing: "Cardboard box, that would 'ave been luxury, we just 'ad an 'ole in the ground. Tell that to kids today and they won't believe you!"
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Posted By martinw
Ron. No.
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Posted By AHS
Thats the trouble with ambiguous catch all law so favoured by the establishment.
"Cracks in the Pavement" springs to mind.
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Posted By ahzulu1
Ron,
That was so funny I burst out laughing....
Any way don't worry growing vegetables Codex Alimenatarius will soon put a stop to that.
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Posted By Graham Bullough
More frivolous Friday musings on this thread, even though they're not as good as "Hermit to work":
When the council contacted the fire brigade about the hole, presumably the brigade agreed to go and look into it.
Also, is there any info as to whether the hole was shored or not? Surely shoring in Brighton (near the sea, geddit) shouldn't have been a problem!
Did the guy start off intending to do some double digging and then got too enthusiastic or even well dug in?
As an aside, when I used the forum spellchecker for my earlier response, the only word it questioned was "Yorkshiremen". It's now done the same for Lancastrians, which leads me to wonder if the spellchecker has some sinister anti-Northern bias. Who else does it not like?
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Posted By martinw
I have just put in Geordie and no spelling errors were found. Woo hoo!
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Posted By Peter Zunda
That's probably because you were using Windah's 2000 !
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Posted By martinw
I take it that you are from the same part of the world as your employer Peter?
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Posted By Peter Zunda
I am but my name isn't!
Used to cover parts of the North East in my previous post and, in the distant past, had many a laugh with my Whitley Bay based fitter over Geordie & Tyke pronunciation.
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Posted By martinw
Sorry, didn't get a word of that - can't really understand southerners
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Posted By Peter Zunda
Tha wat's lad ?
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Having just read the article I see he has had a few dealings with the Law.
He kept bees - against their will presumably.
A cereal offender perhaps.
He may have escaped on one charge, but allotment he had to go.
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