A sensory and herb garden will be created in Borehamwood to enable disabled and impaired people improve and enhance their everyday life.

The herb garden will be a quiet, serene environment for people to go and grow herbs, fruit and vegetables. This project will aid individuals who are visually impaired or wheelchair users by helping them progress and improve through the use of their senses.

The project is funded by two Hertfordshire County Councillors Alan Plancey and Leon Reefe, who have each given £750 from their locality budget to the charity Gratitude.

Councillors Plancey and Reefe said: “We are delighted to part fund this really useful project. Not only will it help those who are visually impaired and wheelchair users, but the produce from the garden will be used to cook fresh flavoursome food for those who are increasingly using food banks.”