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Allotments to be lost
5:02pm Friday 21st December 2007
GARDENERS in Wooburn Green may have grown their last vegetable after the lease for 25 plots in Holtspur Lane could not be renewed.
Wooburn & Bourne End parish councillor Margaret Marshall said the council was trying to locate a new site for the allotments within the parish, but had so far had no luck.
The current lease will expire in January and Cllr Marshall, deputy chair of the council's Services Committee, which is responsible for allotments, said: "Obviously land is at a bit of a premium in the area. We were trying to get an extension on the lease - we're in talks with the landowner. We're doing all we can to find somewhere."
She added that plot holders would still be able to harvest their crops.
The parish's other allotment site in Bourne End has 69 plots, but there is a growing waiting list. Council clerk Lisa Witney said: "There is an upsurge in popularity for 'growing your own'."
The 25 Holtspur Lane Allotment plot holders have been offered spaces on the waiting list.
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Ivor, says...
8:37pm Sat 22 Dec 07
The 25 Holtspur Lane Allotment plot holders have been offered spaces on the waiting list.Why should they join the waiting list? If they currently have allotments they should be given allotments immediately.
I wonder how long it will be before an application for planning permission to build new houses on the site of the old allotments is submitted.
SL, Bucks says...
7:11am Sun 23 Dec 07
erm, ermsville says...
11:32pm Sun 23 Dec 07
If they currently have allotments they should be given allotments immediately.
so do you turf off existing allotment holders? There is more people wanting allotments than allotments, that is why there is a list. I doubt there are any vacant plots in any of the sites around Wycombe.
Still, it is very sad that allotment sites are being lost, a bit more of our heritage.
George - Wycombe, says...
2:42am Thu 27 Dec 07
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