I SYMPATHISE with Sean Fowler regarding allotments and the people who have been waiting a long time to have one (Letters, August 28).

There are 110 allotments in The Weald site in Hove who have had weed notices and the council doesn’t do anything about this matter.

It says it gives these people a month’s notice to clear their allotments and makes all these rules stating that all allotments have to be 85%cultivated, not including grass paths or covered over.

Why doesn’t the council stick to what it says?

We need old timers like Sean Fowler to own allotments, to show some of the other allotment holders how to do gardening.

Many of these plots could be turned into five rods so others could have a chance to grow vegetables. There are some people with two plots who don’t even run one plot, without the help of someone else doing the digging.

These are not disabled people. They are fit but lazy. They don’t need these plots. It’s a case of I don’t want the allotment but I don’t want anyone else to have it.

This is selfish and greedy. There are others who come up with ideas of a cottage garden, this is one over-run with buddlea and dogwood shrubs that are left to grow into trees, plus all the convolvulus weeds and couch grass etc.

These are people who call themselves gardeners – what a joke. Then you have the people who think half an hour or one hour a week will do to run an allotment.

Weald allotments are a disgrace and something needs to be done with them.

E Birch
Rowan Avenue, Hove