Plot holders at Combe Down Allotments in Bath are being kicked off the site because the landowner wants to terminate the lease.
Plot holder Renee Tyers, 68, said the allotments in Bath are ‘wonderful’ Nearly 70 allotment holders were devasted to learn the owner of the site is evicting them from plots that have been there since 1894. The gardeners at Combe Down Allotments in Bath have been told the landowner – a distant relative of the original owner – wants to terminate the lease.
It said: ‘By an accident of history, the large allotment site at Combe Down has been held in leasehold since 1895. ‘The site, along with the adjacent quarry and the Monkton School playing fields, is owned by a distant relative of the original landowner, who is not a resident of Bath.
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