Demolition is underway at the Farm Terrace allotments in Watford.

The mechanical jaws of a giant digger have begun dismantling the final plots at the site in Occupation Road.

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Last October, a High Court judge ruled that allotment holders would have to abandon their plots to make way for a major regeneration scheme.

Watford Borough Council argued it needed the land for the Health Campus sheme - an plan to build 700 homes and build new hospital facilities.

The Farm Terrace allotments date back to 1882 and those who tend their crops there, many of them elderly, fought plans to develop them tooth and nail. 

The case was heard in the High Court three times. Judges had twice overturned the Secretary of State's consent in 2012 and 2014.