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Private Allotments - How much do you or would you pay??

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Digeroo:
I am on a private allotment and 10 pole size is £75m and half that £45.  But I would expect to have to pay more nearer a town and particularly in Kent.  We have water but no loos and use of a communal shed.   We are not allowed sheds and greenhouses on the plots or livestock. 

Technically we are growing spaces rather than allotments since allotment acts do not apply.  We have an annual contract.

We are just starting the third year and have about seven more spaces this year.  They are proving very popular. 1/4 acre is rather large, most people on our site have about 5 poles. 

Works very well we are very pleased with the scheme.  It is so nice to hear that people are opening up private growing spaces.  Goodluck with your venture.

bigcatmaniac:
Hi there

I am on a private allotment in the Vale of Glamorgan -a lovely rural spot only 10 miles outside Cardiff. It's pricy - basically £1 a day (£30.33) per month. But it's still cheaper than going to am gym! I have a half plot (about 125sqm). Not sure how many poles that is. It's slightly better to take a whole plot but I'm new to this and wanted to avoid an expected 8 year wait for a Council one. We have running water, heaps of manure, a composting toilet, picnic tables, mowed shared paths and the turf is lifted and left for you when you take the plot. See www.growplots.co.uk for more info

Good luck with your venture.

Bigcat

kt.:

--- Quote from: bigcatmaniac on February 19, 2011, 19:20:39 --- It's pricy - basically £1 a day (£30.33) per month.
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£360 per year :o :o :o Somebody is having your eyes out.  Extortion. 




--- Quote from: kath-epona on February 07, 2011, 08:06:45 ---I was looking into opening one, providing 1/4 acre plot per person and a share in a very large greenhouse. What what be a fair monthly price?

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I certainly  wouldn't be paying the above price.  Average price around here is £25 per plot; mine is a council plot but a nearby site is private land owned by a Lord.  Tenants pay around £30 per year for one of his plots. 

Ellen K:
I'm on a council site and pay £40 for 300 sq yards = 10 poles (?).

They could probably push the rent up to £80 but after that people would start to drop out.  But some of those people would be the ones who aren't doing much cultivating.  And some people may downsize to half a plot.  So it would free up plots for the waiting list.

You couldn't rent many plots at Growplot's rates but maybe they haven't got many plots.  On our site, only one plot has a polytunnel and its getting on a bit now.  But you go to some sites and see loads of them and fancy greenhouses and secure metal sheds.  These things don't come cheap so clearly there are people out there prepared to spend significant sums on their plots.

I've been watching You Can't Take It With You, when Sir Gerry looked at the Dutch couple with a Garden Center and 6 kids, he said that one son was working on products that don't make any money and they showed a quick shot of loose seed potatoes.  It was quite telling, you have to work quite hard to make money selling to allotment holders I suspect.  I wouldn't invest in the set up of a new site then charge £30 per plot, that's for sure

Unwashed:
I'm sorry, but I'm getting a bit cross about this.

Parish councils outside london have a legal duty to provide sufficient allotments, and they have the power to compulsorily rent the site at an agricultural rate (like 50p per pole) so there is very little justification for any but the most urban parishes to have anyone on their waiting lists whatsoever, and because council sites can be self-managed for £3-4 per pole there is no sense in private allotments charging more unless the parish council is either delinquent in its duty, or complicit in the scam.

If someone wants to pay £350 for their allotment then they have more money than sense and that doesn't bother me one iota, but I am seriously bothered about the many working people who are denied an allotment because of waiting lists and extortianate pricing - and I think we should be doing something about it.

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