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Preserve our plots!
FURTHER to your news article on allotments (AG, 27 June), I have a plot in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. It is on a flood plain and we flood every year now, so with this in mind, we are hopeful our site won’t go for housing.
Unfortunately, that can’t be said for Dewsbury, the next town along, which has lost its large site to a link road to serve a massive housing estate, and I’ve heard about battles to save plots elsewhere. In the Kirklees area, there are hundreds on the waiting list for a plot; I waited four years for my first one.…
