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Sandwell was impressive. High metal security fence with impressive security gate, toilets, tarmac roads to the plots,clubhouse, shop, water taps everywhere, brick shed on each plot and delivery of wood chips and street leaves for allotment holders to use. And the rents were nowhere near that..
pole /rod/perch is 5.5 yards and normally used squared for land measurement. 1 (square) pole = 30.25 sq yards or 25.29 sq metres. So if your plot was 300 sq yards (90 feet by 30 feet) it was approx 9.92 (square) poles.(1 / 30.25 x300)And I agree! One instance where the metric system wins hands down.
in our association there are plenty of folk who keep hens on a 10 rod plot, (hen run can only be 20 sq yards max) ;)
On a small scale you can easily exceed those welfare standards. On the size of flocks that are allowed many of the chickens don't actually free range as far as intended. Hens are far happier in smaller sized flocks and more likely to make fuller use of the available land.If you are selling surplus eggs then you have to adhere to the EU standards for free range if selling them as such (a lot don't). However if anyone complains then you have trading standards breathing down your neck.
According to the Allotment Acts, produce from allotments cannot be sold to support a business, but there should be no objection to the occasional sale of surplus produce that is not for commercial purposes.