{"id":62700,"date":"2025-02-28T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=62700"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:31:58","slug":"private-allotment-company-threaten-to-pitch-new-site-in-ecclesfield-disrupting-historic-rural-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/private-allotment-company-threaten-to-pitch-new-site-in-ecclesfield-disrupting-historic-rural-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears over allotments threaten to disrupt \u2018historic rural community\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents and councillors fear an allotment company could be planning to build a new site in Ecclesfield, which they believe would be unfit for the area, causing traffic congestion and disrupting the privacy of homeowners in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community members believe Roots Allotments, which has nine sites nationwide, including one in Dronfield, plan to set up a new site in the North of the city.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1KvYIhet0IPDTivMq4Wi7CgTTsaGUB-g&#038;ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>As a local resident, Susan Davidson (also chairman of Ecclesfield Parish Council), 53, raised the issue at a meeting of the North Area Committee at Forge Valley School on Thursday, criticising Roots Allotments potential impact on the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cWe&#8217;re looking at potentially hundreds of cars coming to our community with no plan for parking, no real access.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s only two ways into that field, there&#8217;s Loicher Lane, which is a very dangerous 60 mile an hour stretch with blind corners and then Butterthwaite Lane, which is a private road, only really supposed to be for access to the residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its other sites across the UK, Roots Allotments has an average of 27 plots per acre. 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