Community Gardeners Object To Council Eviction
Common Ground Community Garden | 22.10.2007 16:41 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Oxford
At our meeting on Sunday, Common Ground Community Garden Collective agreed that we wanted to make the following points to the public and the media about the eviction of the community garden:
1) No notice of eviction was given to the inhabitants of 6 Silver Street. The door was kicked in without warning and bailiffs walked over the inhabitant's bedding. The inhabitants would have been made homeless, were it not for the generosity of other nearby squatters who have put them up (and who are themselves soon to face eviction)
2) Builders sent to remove the contents of the community garden, dropped and smashed plant pots and dumped a children's slide and climbing frame outside of the garden.
3) Since the garden was boarded up the white walls of one of the properties has been covered in graffitti. This was not a problem when the garden was being looked after by the occupying group.
4) Many local residents, many of whom do not have gardens, are outraged by the council's actions.
Thankyou,
Common Ground Collective.
2) Builders sent to remove the contents of the community garden, dropped and smashed plant pots and dumped a children's slide and climbing frame outside of the garden.
3) Since the garden was boarded up the white walls of one of the properties has been covered in graffitti. This was not a problem when the garden was being looked after by the occupying group.
4) Many local residents, many of whom do not have gardens, are outraged by the council's actions.
Thankyou,
Common Ground Collective.
Common Ground Community Garden
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