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Municipalities leave volunteer amateur boards with the responsibility for lawlessness that should have been stopped by the municipalities themselves. Expert recommends an emergency exit for the allotment garden owners who openly acknowledge violations.

Expert recommends emergency exit for pressured colonists

Thousands of allotment garden houses are built too large, and many of them are used as year-round residences. However, the colonists who acknowledge their violations should receive assistance, according to an expert. Illustration: Caroline Niegaard. Originalfoto: Thomas Borberg / Jacob Ehrbahn / Miriam Dalsgaard / Lars Hansen / Holger Damgaard / Morten Langkilde
Thousands of allotment garden houses are built too large, and many of them are used as year-round residences. However, the colonists who acknowledge their violations should receive assistance, according to an expert. Illustration: Caroline Niegaard. Originalfoto: Thomas Borberg / Jacob Ehrbahn / Miriam Dalsgaard / Lars Hansen / Holger Damgaard / Morten Langkilde
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There are no excuses for breaking the law. Not even the allotment law.

But far too many municipalities are shirking their responsibilities for a alloment country that, in many places, has ended up in lawlessness.

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