Police were called after an attempt to create a large allotment project on the edge of Bristol was held up by angry neighbours. A stand-off ensued on the entrance lane to Leigh Woods, where a firm setting up a new model of commercial allotments are trying to begin work.
Roots Allotments want to turn a field next to the main A369 road in Abbots Leigh into 700 allotment plots and rent them out to people from across Bristol and North Somerset, but local residents in the village are battling to stop them, saying they should need planning permission because of the impact of the project.
A group of young entrepreneurs set up Roots after the Covid lockdown and have been running a smaller site on the edge of Bath for a couple of years. Bristol Live revealed their plans to find a Bristol site a year ago in April 2022, but attempts to get the project off the ground on the large field at the entrance to Leigh Woods have been so far frustrated.
