Our allotments are potentially under threat of future housing development.
Although the landowner (not the Parish Council, who rent the plots from him), has said that he isn't interested in selling, we know for a fact that he has adjoining sites which can easily be accessed, and we've seen his surveyors around and about. They're all in the 'Neighbourhood Plan'.
I'm in my seventy-first year, and don't think that taking on a new Patch is that fantastic an option. It'll take several years for the plots to go after planning, and by then, I will probably have had enough, even though I still have a great Mantis tiller, a super Webb mower and all the encouragement from a gorgeous wife and lovely friends.
But making my Patch over for a housing estate isn't my way of liking the way Tunbridge Wells Council treat the people who pay them.
No politics here, just an observation. We're fighting them.
Oh yes; they ain't seen nothing yet...