The landlord is challenging a council's designation of the site as an 'asset of community value'
By Matt Barlow & Eddie BisknellA hearing is due to take place as part of a group's fight to save an allotment, which has been used for more than 100 years, from development.Derbyshire Dales District Council has designated it an "asset of community value" to prevent development.Diggers were seen working on the site, near Matlock, last week.Image caption,Resident Brian Downing told BBC Radio Derby: "I was astounded. It seems to be pre-empting the tribunal.
Chris Wright, who has been on the allotments for 40 years, said: "I've cried quite a lot and I feel awful. "It's heart-breaking. People have loved these allotments for so long and cared for them and to see them being dug up is not very nice at all."His spokesperson told the"The site is in the ownership of the landlord and it has been in a mess for a long time now and it is being cleaned up.Image source,Dozens of tenants were served eviction notices in December after a year of battling to prevent their removal.
The district council is also helping Matlock Town Council in its aim to compulsory buy or hire the site from Mr Newton by force, the Local Democracy Reporting Service reports. The allotments were set up for returning service personnel from World War One, as a method of rest and rehabilitation.
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