SIR – We write to let off steam about our allotment site. The latest figure we have to date is that 31 people are waiting for a plot at our site, yet we have 19 uncultivated plots, four of which have not been cultivated for up to three years. Is this the case at other sites in Bradford?

The Council criteria when renting a plot is that two-thirds must be cultivated within a strict given time frame. The Council representatives carry out site inspections twice yearly (they even take photographs).

Follow-up letters go out to plots that are uncultivated, those knee-deep in weeds. The letter states that they must improve or offer reasons, but then nothing happens and the weeds continue to thrive.

We therefore ask two open questions to the Council and other allotment associations – how can there be so many willing people still having to wait? How can the Council afford (in these times of great hardship) to lose the revenue?

What if we combined lost revenue from our site with those in the Bradford area?

M Hamilton, secretary, Bullroyd Allotment Association