A group of residents in supported living homes claim a housing association is taking away their communal garden.
Residents who live in a number of homes on Queens Close, Runcorn, told the ECHO their housing association are removing the communal garden which they have tended to for over five years.
Pamela Kendrick started the garden when she first moved to the road - and says she put around £2,500 of her own money into the project.
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Ms Kendrick said when she first moved to the supported living homes the residents were given permission to use a plot of land to the side of her bungalow, which they turned into a communal garden.
She said they grow their own vegetables, have a greenhouse, and in the summer use the space to socialise and have tea and cake.
Ms Kendrick said the residents, many of them pensioners, are "kept going" by the communal space - and have always kept it to the "highest standard".
She claimed Halton Housing has now said the fences around the garden need to come down - and told the residents to dig up the flowers in the garden and replant them elsewhere.
The 61-year-old claimed Halton Housing first notified the 22 residents of the plans around a month ago.
Ms Kendrick told the ECHO : "It's an absolute disgrace.
"When we started the garden they gave us permission to do it but now they're taking it away from us.
"We've always kept it to the highest standard - the agreement was we could keep it as long as we maintained it ourselves.
"We're not doing anyone any harm. It wasn't being used before we started it and after this disaster it won't be used again.
"They've said we can use the space but they just want it back as grass.
"Taking away our garden is taking away our quality of life and the little independence we've got left."
Ms Kendrick said: "It was therapeutic and gave us some purpose and independence.
"Now what do they want us to do - just sit around and watch the grass grow?"
A spokesperson for Halton Housing told the ECHO : "We can confirm that Halton Housing is working with the customers at Queens Close to resolve the issues that have been raised.
"We do not comment on individual cases however we would like to clarify that whilst access to the indoor communal area was restricted during the pandemic, in line with government advice, it has now been fully re-opened and is available for all customers at Queens Close to use, as are the communal gardens."
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