FURTHER to your recent two articles on possible allotment holder evictions. I would like to refer readers to the statement in your January 14, 2004 edition.
Councillor Foley "gave a categorical assurance that the council had no intention of closing any allotments against the wishes of those occupying them" also "if the allotment holders want to leave everything as it is now that's fine" and confirmed this verbally in front of 250 allotment holders at a public meeting on January 27, 2004.
Unfortunately, as with the Front Garden and Coate, money talks and I am very much afraid affected allotments holders will be offered derelict plots, perhaps miles away, probably roughly rotovated once, which is vastly different from 42 years of cultivation.
D ROSE
Swindon
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