Fifty people on the waiting list for a plot at the Canal Garden allotments will be pleased to know that there are five vacancies.

Unfortunately the plots have been unused for up to three years and are very overgrown. Inexplicably, the council still has not allocated them to new users. Neighbouring plot holders, the chair of the association and I have all written to the BathNES allotment department to point this out, but have not recieved a reply.

While the waiting lists grow, the five Canal Garden plots overgrow. Aside from those frustrated on the waiting list, this also disadvantages nearby gardeners to whose patches the weeds are likely to spread.

I shall continue digging at the problem.