A dispute has broken out between allotment holders and the council. Angry gardeners in Darwen claim the council has started to dig up a vehicle access road to their plots to create a parking spot for a nearby resident, leaving disabled allotment holders unable to access the site. However, Darwen councillor, Cllr Dave Smith, said there never was a permanent access road to the Harwood Street garden plots, and there is plenty of parking on the pavement. One allotment holder said: "There are disabled people on that site that only took the allotments and garden plots because there was vehicle access.