Just received another invoice from Greenbelt today. A complete change from a year ago when they had their debt collection agency threatening us. No red letter, no threats of court action, just a 'late payment' charge.

Also, no list of what work was done, what work is planned, just a request that we keep paying them in blind faith that they'll turn up with their chain gang and cut the grass a few times over the growing season.

If anyone else has received similar I'd hope they'll be doing as I do and requesting a list of work carried out last year and also a plan of work to be carried out this year.

I also plan to go along to the public meeting in Menstrie church hall this Friday (19th March) to support the campaign of non-payment that's taking hold - hopefully I'll catch up with some of you there also.

Cheers for now,
Brian S

If you read back through much of the content on this site, and on others like the West Myerton run website (check out the posts at http://www.spanglefish.com/westmyertonresidents/guestbook.asp for the latest on their situation), you'll see this isn't anything new on the Greenbelt tactic. They seem to have pushed a lot of these letters out in the past week, prior to their upcoming court appearance in Perth.

I'm still withholding payment and will continue to do so as long as necessary to see a change in the way these one-sided land management contracts are forced upon residents.

I'm just off the phone to someone else in the estate who has received the same letter even though they had paid up to the end of last year. It seems a bit heavy handed to be threatening court action with someone who had been paying up until this year.