A County Durham retiree claims she is being forced out of the allotment that she and her husband have tended to for decades.
Marjorie Sanders and her husband Malcolm, of Bearpark, County Durham, had been married for 52 years when Malcolm passed away during the Coronavirus pandemic on May 4 2020. For the last 42 years, they have had an allotment with Durham County Council, the second of which they have held for more than 30 years.
However, when Marjorie, 73, recently received a new agreement form for the allotment, she realised that she could not sign it as it was still in her late husband's name. Thinking it would be easy to transfer it into her own, she contacted the county council but was shocked to find out that they wouldn't change the agreement and instead gave her four weeks notice to vacate the plot on Stobbilee Farm in Langley Park, due to there being a waiting list for allotments.
