HEARTBROKEN allotment holders at a Blackpool site have asked their MP for a fence all the way round to stop vandals wrecking their plots.
Gardeners at the allotments off Lawson Road near Stanley Park are fed up with finding their flowers and vegetables uprooted and hut doors, windows and roofs smashed. And they have approached Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden to help find funding for a fence to thwart the culprits.
Eileen Boswell, who has worked an allotment with her husband and family for eight years, said: "We have a lot of vandalism that's been going on two years.
"What we want is a fence putting right around because we think the vandals are coming off the fields at the back."
She added: "It's got to the point where people just don't want to come on to their plot.
"You come down in the morning and there's just a mass of colours on the path where vandals have just taken the heads off flowers and thrown them.
"They don't actually steal anything. They have even ripped the roof off the shed and left it nearby."
The Boswells, who live at Grange Park, said they have lost stock worth hundreds of pounds and are worried that remaining sacks of compost and other stores will be attacked and ruined. Gordon Marsden MP said he would write to Blackpool Council about the problem and look into what funding, including government funding, could be available.
"I appreciate the council have tried to strengthen security by putting a gate on the site but we need to look at other measures including a fence.
"We have little enough area for people to grow things in Blackpool without having them smashed up."
A council spokeswoman said: "We are working on a development plan for allotments throughout the borough.
"There are seven sites involved and anti-vandalism options are costly and therefore need to be considered with financial constraints."
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