The site for Bristol’s first commercial allotment scheme has been unveiled - and there could be as many as 700 new allotment plots available there. Bosses at Roots, which runs a large allotment in Bath which started earlier this year, say they hope to have the site at Abbots Leigh up and running by the spring of next year.
The team told Bristol Live back in April how their idea for large new allotment sites came together during lockdown and was set up in Bath in 2021 and finally opened in March this year. They announced then that they intended to open a second at a site in Bristol, but had not identified one here yet.
Now Roots have, and it could well be twice the size of the Bath site, which is at Newbridge on the edge of the city. Roots have announced that the Bristol site will be at Abbots Leigh, with a field to the east of the main A369 Abbots Leigh Road, right next to the main entrance to Leigh Woods opposite the Clifton College sports ground.
