asked my local Council if it would be possible to put a Hive on an allotments and what insurance they require and got the responce that yes ok, £5m public liabilty insurance required but I CANNOT Sell the Honey and i must sign a declaration that the Honey is for my own use ,they quote
"The key legal restriction is contained in the Allotments Act 1922, whereby there is a general prohibition on any “trade or business” being conducted on the allotment garden or any part thereof. An allotment garden must, by definition, “be wholly or mainly cultivated for the production of vegetable or fruit crops for consumption by the occupier or his family”. So allotment gardens can’t operate as market gardens,Apiaries or nurseries.Furthermore, carrying out any form of trade such as sale of Honey to a shop or at Farmer's Markets, however small, produced on the allotment site could also be interpreted as being in breach of this law"
Has anyone else come across this JOBWORTHS view?
"The key legal restriction is contained in the Allotments Act 1922, whereby there is a general prohibition on any “trade or business” being conducted on the allotment garden or any part thereof. An allotment garden must, by definition, “be wholly or mainly cultivated for the production of vegetable or fruit crops for consumption by the occupier or his family”. So allotment gardens can’t operate as market gardens,Apiaries or nurseries.Furthermore, carrying out any form of trade such as sale of Honey to a shop or at Farmer's Markets, however small, produced on the allotment site could also be interpreted as being in breach of this law"
Has anyone else come across this JOBWORTHS view?