Allotments to be lost (From Bucks Free Press)

Allotments to be lost

5:02pm Friday 21st December 2007 in

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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.