Poison metal allotments may be kept open
allotments where a health alert was issued last year after food grown at a plot was found to be contaminated with arsenic and lead could be kept in use.
Today members of Calderdale Council’s cabinet will receive a report on the future of the Milner Royd Allotment site in Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax.
The report follows tests on soil and produce at the site which have concluded the plots can be kept open as long as reasonable precautions are taken about preparation and consumption of produce. It recommends this option but also flags up the potential for a second new allotment site in Sowerby Bridge, at Bentley Royd.
Councillors are being asked to back the £100,000 new allotment scheme.