An allotment shop at a nature park has been the latest building in the area to be destroyed in a suspected arson attack. The shop, which stored and sold equipment to allotment users at Forest Farm in Whitchurch, Cardiff, has been left completely destroyed as a result of fire.
Other suspected arson attacks have taken place in the area over the past few years with the bird hide and shed being destroyed in June last year and another bird hide being destroyed just a few months later in October. The hides were also targeted in 2019 as a bird hide was destroyed in a suspected arson attack.
Lin Dimond is chairman of the allotment and runs the now destroyed shop, which was discovered on the morning of October 21. She believes that the suspected arson attacks have become a growing problem since lockdown. She said: “In the last three years we have had five sheds burnt down. It’s just ongoing and people get fed up.
