A golf club will turn part of the site into a driving range

The land, in Billesley Lane, has been used by gardeners to grow their own food for more than 80 years.

Moseley Golf Club, which owns the land, wants to use the site to build a driving range.

At a meeting on Sunday, the gardeners agreed to keep the land until 2005 and then hand over one quarter to the golf club.

The chairman of Billesley Lane Allotments Association, Geoff Bainbridge, says they had no choice but to accept the deal.

Birmingham City Council tried to secure the long-term future of the plots with a compulsory purchase order but that failed.

The government refused to impose the order saying it would be against European law governing owners' rights.