A 97-year-old woman is standing firm against her local council and builders and refusing to sell a 6ft patch of land to developers, "even if they offer £100,000".
OAP Dolly Burton has been asked to give up two metres of her front garden so that plans to build 49 houses can go ahead.
"The way they wanted it, they'd take most of the garden and it would be awful if I had no front garden."
Councillor Paul Smith, cabinet member for housing, said she was "completely within her rights to refuse" the offer.
Mr Smith said: "She is a council tenant, it is council-owned land, but the rules are such that the council can't take away part of somebody's tenancy without their agreement.
"If we can't use that strip of garden then we'll have to work with the existing access."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/573128...-dolly-burton/
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