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lavenderlux
Acre
Posts: 312
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #60 on:
January 06, 2010, 19:32:55 »
We pay £3.40 per rod for any size plot (over 60's get a discount).
Its a Council owned site with very active committee who manage and maintain the site. We have water taps and troughs (located about every 6th plot), two skips a year for non-compostable items. Bonfires are banned, so we have a bay where we can put woody prunings etc and have a chipper-shredder (operated by committee volunteers) to deal with this type of material, which can then be composted. We also have regular deliveries of tree chippings. We have a field trading shed, use of field owned mowers and strimmers (for a donation towards fuel and maintenance), large field shed for committee meetings etc, and a compost toilet. Council pay for the skips, for road planings for trackway maintenance and things like repair of leaky taps and repair of any damage caused by vandalism.
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Unwashed
Hectare
Posts: 2,735
Vexatious, moi?
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #61 on:
January 07, 2010, 19:10:18 »
*boing*
If you haven't already, can you say how much a plot costs at your allotment site, and then we can get an idea of what an average rent looks like. Thanks.
Average rent so far is:
£4.08/pole
.
Here's the 5-pole rankings:
£1.20 reddyreddy
£1.54 heloise
£2.20 ktlawson
£2.30 kea
£2.34 Lucho
£2.40 saddad
£2.50 digindep
£2.60 tonybloke (without water)
£2.90 springs
£2.93 TeeGee
£3.40 lavenderlux
£3.40 Trevor_D
£3.70 Sparkly
£3.80 tonybloke (with water)
£4.00 BarriedaleNick
£4.12 Bill Door
£4.40 Squash64
£4.71 Unwashed
£5.50 manicscousers
£5.50 SMP1704
£6.00 PurpleHeather
£6.75 Digeroo
£6.94 theothermarg
£6.96 cornykey
£8.63 brian4951
£8.77 Twoflower
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zigzig
Acre
Posts: 385
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #62 on:
January 07, 2010, 20:02:25 »
Our council charges us £250 a year for 38 plots but if we spend the £250 or more on improving the site we don't need to pay anything to them.
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Unwashed
Hectare
Posts: 2,735
Vexatious, moi?
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #63 on:
January 07, 2010, 20:36:40 »
zigzig, what rent does the allotmenteer pay, and how big is her plot?
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Digindep
Half Acre
Posts: 109
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #64 on:
January 08, 2010, 12:27:12 »
Unwashed....£250 pa...seriously would it realy be worthwhile ?
Maybe its a way of driving people off site for some other reason,
' maybe housing' ?????
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1066
Hectare
Posts: 4,390
And all that ..... in Hastings
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #65 on:
January 08, 2010, 12:46:52 »
unwashed
I pay £3.15 per rod which includes water + £2.00 annual membership fee +10p share certificate. I have 8 rods BTW
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BAK
Wiki Editor
Hectare
Posts: 529
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #66 on:
January 18, 2010, 07:28:57 »
A standard plot on our site is 5 poles although in reality they vary in size. The 2010 rent for a standard plot will be £11, i.e. £2.20 per pole. This includes water.
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Tee Gee
Hectare
Posts: 6,932
Huddersfield - Light humus rich soil
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #67 on:
January 18, 2010, 13:55:49 »
Nice to see I am paying second lowest when you fetch the OAP discount into effect.
That is I actually pay £1-44 / pole, and that includes water, access to the community hut, and a third share of the communal tunnel.
Because I order the farm yard manure for the site, the farmer gives me my load for free!so that saves me £20
The council also drops off two or three loads of wood chippings each year as part of there 'recycling regime'
Then I make a few bob from selling a few plants each year, last season I sold about £50 worth.
So all in all I guess I am pretty well off! 8) ;D
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! don't tell the council they are looking for ways to increase taxes and if they see this it might give them ideas ;)
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The Gardeners Almanac
Unwashed
Hectare
Posts: 2,735
Vexatious, moi?
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #68 on:
January 18, 2010, 17:42:47 »
The average rate is
£3.99
per pole and that includes water and any mandatory fees.
Here's the 5-pole league table - the pole rate for a five-pole plot
£1.20 reddyreddy
£1.54 heloise
£2.20 BAK
£2.20 ktlawson
£2.30 kea
£2.34 Lucho
£2.40 saddad
£2.50 digindep
£2.60 tonybloke (without water)
£2.90 springs
£2.93 TeeGee
£3.40 lavenderlux
£3.40 Trevor_D
£3.57 1066
£3.70 Sparkly
£3.80 tonybloke (with water)
£4.00 BarriedaleNick
£4.12 Bill Door
£4.40 Squash64
£4.71 Unwashed
£5.50 manicscousers
£5.50 SMP1704
£6.00 PurpleHeather
£6.75 Digeroo
£6.94 theothermarg
£6.96 cornykey
£8.63 brian4951
£8.77 Twoflower
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poohs tao
Not So New ...
Posts: 42
bristol
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #69 on:
January 18, 2010, 18:14:36 »
i am paying £53 per annum for a 300 sq yard plot. there are no toilets or water pipes on the plot
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,896
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #70 on:
January 18, 2010, 18:26:22 »
Welcome to A4A Pooh's Tao
Whereabouts is that exactly?
:-\
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chriscross1966
Hectare
Posts: 3,764
Visionhairy
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #71 on:
January 18, 2010, 18:41:46 »
I think I've got about 10 poles, the plot's a shade over 5m wide and about 50m long, so about 300 sq yards and a pole is 30 square yards yes?
I pay 15 a year total, so 1.50 a pole......there are water troughs but hozes are out and there's no toilet
chrisc
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poohs tao
Not So New ...
Posts: 42
bristol
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #72 on:
January 18, 2010, 18:46:50 »
Quote from: saddad on January 18, 2010, 18:26:22
Welcome to A4A Pooh's Tao
Whereabouts is that exactly?
:-\
thanks. it's st. johns lane bristol. lovely view over the city. there are small water butts around the site but no running water
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Unwashed
Hectare
Posts: 2,735
Vexatious, moi?
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #73 on:
January 18, 2010, 22:58:54 »
Average rate currently stands at
£3.95/pole
. That's a sweet deal you've got there Chris, though reddyreddy just pips you at £1.20/pole.
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Squash64
Hectare
Posts: 4,545
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #74 on:
January 18, 2010, 23:06:08 »
Does every site have a half-price policy for over-sixties? Ours does, so my rent is only £14 a year.
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Betty
Walsall Road Allotments
Birmingham
allotment website:-
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Unwashed
Hectare
Posts: 2,735
Vexatious, moi?
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #75 on:
January 18, 2010, 23:18:11 »
We did but not any more.
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,896
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #76 on:
January 19, 2010, 00:08:22 »
I always threaten to charge them more.... after all they have the time to enjoy it... :-X
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PurpleHeather
Hectare
Posts: 2,894
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #77 on:
January 19, 2010, 06:28:02 »
I have just copied this from Wandworth Council's site one line If you want to add it to the list.....................
Cost and size of allotments
Rents are due on 1 October. Prices are revised each year.
Yearly costs
Full rate
£15.50 per rod or 62p per square metre each year
(1 rod = 25 square metres)
Concessionary rate (for people over 60 years old or with a disability)
£10 per rod or 40p per square metre
Example
Cost for a plot of 2 to 3 rods (50 to 75 square metres)
Full rate: £31 to £46.50
Concessionary rate: £20 to £30
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reddyreddy
Hectare
Posts: 597
Everybody dies but not everybody lives...
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #78 on:
January 19, 2010, 09:16:16 »
BTW, our plot is part of an ancient charity allotment site not council run. There are no toilets or parking and for water a trough, maybe you pay more the better the facilities are - I'm NOT complaining mind, love our oasis! :)
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Unwashed
Hectare
Posts: 2,735
Vexatious, moi?
Re: Allotment Rents
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Reply #79 on:
January 19, 2010, 10:17:27 »
Thanks PurpleHeather, that certainly drags the average up - it's now £4.33/pole for a sample of 31 sites.
reddyreddy, you'd think facilities might correlate with cost, but not so - Newbury Town Council wanted to charge £25/pole for pretty much what you describe, but our sites do have car parks, especially the site by the council offices where the officers park their cars; that has a lovely car park, but then they did spend several thousand pounds of the allotment budget on it.
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