AN ANDOVER man has been left frustrated after being evicted from his allotment by the town council.

Steven Brady says he was evicted from his allotment plot by Andover Town Council over disagreements on the way he planted his crops.

Steven appealed the eviction but says he has not received a response from the town council about the decision in more than 12 weeks, leaving him frustrated.

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He said: “How can this go on for months and months for what is a basic decision?

“My plot is sat there with the fruit rotting on the trees and the tomatoes rotting on the vines because I’m not allowed to do anything on my plot because I’ve been evicted, and they haven’t even got someone to take it over.”

Steven also claims that the council did not follow correct procedures when it evicted him, saying: “They are meant to send you two or three warning letters and they haven’t done that. So, I assumed it was all put to bed.”

However, Steven found that he had been evicted from his allotment patch without prior warning from the town council.

He explained: “September came around and everyone is getting their bills, and I’m still not getting a bill from the council.

“I sent them an email saying ‘Your post doesn’t come through to me for some reason. You’ve forgotten to send me a bill’, and they say ‘Oh no, you’ve been evicted'.

The experience has soured Steven’s opinion of Andover Town Council.

He continued: “It’s criminal, I think is the way I would describe it, absolutely criminal.

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“These people have taken our money and are doing absolutely nothing.

“They don’t answer the phone, they don’t answer emails, they don’t answer letters, they do what they like, and they are, by all accounts, a law unto their selves.”

Steven said that this is not the first time that something like this has happened, and that another man had been evicted from his allotment by the council last year.

He explained: “He paid his allotment fees and turned up one day to his allotment to find they had given it to someone else, and from what I understand they’d made the other person pay the fee as well.”

The Advertiser contacted Andover Town Council for comment.