Nearly 70 allotment holders are being booted off their plots despite being there for 130 years - after the landowner served notice.<br /><br />The 64 green-fingered gardeners in Bath in Somerset are being evicted from the site where allotments have been since 1894.<br /><br />The site is owned by a distant relative of the original landowner who is not a resident of Bath. <br /><br />Bath and North East Somerset Council was warned the owner of Combe Down Allotments planned to terminate the lease. <br /><br />The council said it had been trying to negotiate with the landowner but he refused to meet them.<br /><br />Cllr Tim Ball said: “This land has been used for allotments since 1894 and continues to be of significant social value for the community so this is a hugely disappointing decision.''
