Volunteers behind a scheme to resolve flooding on a Nantwich allotment site have received extra backing from town councillors.
The Brookfield Allotment Association team has already completed some work on a project to improve the site and attract more tenants.
Willaston councillors say they have fought off a challenge to take over fields bordering their allotment site off Crewe Road.
It’s believed the challenge was related to a housing developer’s plan to build 220 houses, although this has not been confirmed.
Brookfield Allotment holders in Nantwich are celebrating a double win at their popular site.
More than 50 members of the Brookfield Allotment Association, their families and friends hailed the opening of a refurbished community area at their open day.
Nantwich Environmental Task force will be back in action on Sunday (February 16) revitalizing a neglected allotment at Brookfield.
They are making the area ready for new growers to grow fresh veg, fruit and flowers in the Spring.
New “Grow Your Own” taster session are being launched at Nantwich’s community garden.
The blossoming venue, a hidden gem at the heart of the historic town, will run free taster sessions on how to grow your own veg.
Flooding problems plaguing a Nantwich allotments site is likely to be being caused by a school field, a report states.
Allotment holders at the Brookfield site have been hit by floods over a number of years, with the worst occurring in January after Storm Christoph.
Police and fire chiefs are appealing for witnesses to track down arsonists who piled up rubbish and started a large fire in a Nantwich park.
The incident happened in Brookfield Park off Shrewbridge Road – a site which has suffered some anti-social behaviour in recent weeks.
Would-be gardeners in Nantwich are literally losing the plot – amid a council crackdown on absent allotment holders.
Nantwich Town councillors are targeting a ‘growing’ problem with tenants who have ‘bean’ neglecting their sites.
Green-fingered gardeners in Nantwich are calling on the next generation to help them plant seeds for a brighter future for the town, by designing a logo to get more people digging in.
Brookfield Allotment Association, which represents more than 100 allotment holders in the town, wants youngsters to help redraw the image of allotmenteers.
One of Nantwich’s key allotment sites is under water as engineers try to solve a flooding mystery.
More than half of the plots on the Brookfield Allotments off Shrewbridge Road have been flooded for several days.
Staff from Nantwich housing provider Wulvern Housing joined residents to transform a community allotment. The team got stuck in to tackle the overgrown plot on Crewe’s Derby Docks estate.
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