GREEN campaigners in Nafferton have said they will continue their battle to find a suitable site for new allotments in the village.
The pledge comes after hopes that land had been found for plots in the area were dashed for the second time this year.
Now, members of the village's environmental group are in the early stages of considering new alternative proposals to resolve th
e issue, which they say has attracted the support of dozens of villagers.
Parish councillor Mike Jackson told the Driffield Times this week: "If people are still interested in having allotments, which I'm sure they are, we will keep looking."
The latest commitment to the allotment project came after the Nafferton Feoffees charitable trust announced that they would not be going ahead with new plots on land in Nethergate.
Trust chairman Dr David Wigglesworth said the decision had been taken following professional advice and for a number of reasons.
The reasons included concerns over a public footpath which runs through the site.
But Dr Wigglesworth said there may also be alternative solutions, adding: "We feel the village hasn't completely explored other possibilities yet."
The Nethergate proposal came to light after plans which would have seen plots developed on the Parks, at the corner of Station Road and Priestgate, were scrapped in March.
The scheme, which had been proposed by the Jefferson Hodgson Trust, fell through after access to the site was deemed to be 'inadequate' by Highways officers.
Dr Jackson thanked both organisations for their work on the issue, but admitted the latest setback had taken the project back to 'square one'.
But he explained that environmental group members are looking at two main alternatives to move the project forward.
One would be to find a new site, while the other is a possible 'garden swap' scheme, which would see residents offer space in their own gardens to those villagers interested in plots.
Dr Jackson said the proposals were both in the early stages, but that similar garden swap schemes had been successful in other parts of the country.
And he added that the group felt they needed to continue working on the scheme.
He said: "As there were 40 or 50 people who responded initially saying that they wanted allotments in the village it is clearly something that the people of Nafferton want and support and I hope that we will be able to provide."
