UK: The £100,000 allotment war: Couple face eviction from plots they have cultivated for 20 years
The couple fear the allotment company will ‘send in the bulldozers’ to flatten everything they have nurtured over the years.
By Chris Brooke
For The Daily Mail
Jan 25, 2022
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Miss Price has had to continue working as a social worker to help fund their dispute.
She said: ‘If you’d have told me at the start it would cost us £100,000 I wouldn’t imagine where in the world we would get this money from but we have done it.
‘As the costs mounted up, we had considered giving in. This whole process has caused immense pressure, we’ve suffered many sleepless nights, but we’ve had so much support from the community that we’ve kept on going.’
Pointalls has 160 allotments for members to grow fruit and vegetables. They are managed by a board of directors.
But Miss Price and Mr Armsby appear to have upset the powers-that-be by treating land around their allotment patches, at the bottom end of the site, as if it were part of their garden.
