Topic: The Big A4A Rent Review

[kt.]

Our site charge £24 per full plot and £13 for 1/2 plots.  OAPs get 45% discount (previously 50%), but this will probably get phased out over the next few years as it affects around a third of our total plots.  Rent includes 1x skip early spring for allotment generated waste only, and water supply (with a tap every for every 8 plots or so).  Our rent was the same last year and at the moment will be the same when rents are due in October.  As allotment supervisor I sit on our council committee and argue against any rent increases providing we are within budget as there is no justification.  Our rents are not used as a piggybank for the councils overspend elsewhere.  (We are a self managed site but other sites that are council run in our area are paying double).

[Bill Door]

Based in Hemel Hempstead.

10 poles cost £30 but I think this is increasing to £50 in October (message isn't exactly clear from the council; they seem to think that a Pole is 125SqM).

This includes water but apparently not much else, we are council managed.

The council is looking to offload the allotments at present but this seems to have slowed to a dead stop.

Rid

[Linnea]

whole plot is approx 75ft x 25ft (they vary a bit) half plot approx 35ft x 25ft.
total cost was £51. can't remember the break down on the prices tho. think the half was £19 but not sure now as our rents are due in sept/oct

[pumkinlover]

£30 per 10 pole, agreed at AGM yesterday. We only charge what we need to run the site.

[taurus]

half plot £25 full £47.50  (I think, can't find last years bill.  We go Sept to Sept)  3 water tanks between 21 plots, for which we're truely thankfull.  Last year some wood chippings but that seems to have stopped.
Still waiting for the council to provide all that they promised a few years ago when they sold off some of the sites !!!!
No tarmac roads, no free slabs/shed/toilets/skips/buildings/manure, I'll stop now.  :'( ;D :-*

[saddad]

We are still at £24 for 10 Poles...  :-X

[sarahbell]

We pay £80 for about 200 m2
40 for half that.


Fed says our charges are 20p per square meter Full
10p per  square meter concessionary
but as we have legal fees related to going self-managed we're charging more.

[banksy]

I have a 7m x 25m plot  on a slef managed site in Southend, Essex and it costs me £56 per year, including water and association fee(no hosepipe ban here yet!)

[Gadget]

£18 for a 10 pole plot, no facilites except a water trough, but we do get the grass cut every 4 weeks :) going up £23 next year I think I remember :-\

[manicscousers]

Still 22p per square metre, same as last year but we now have a composting toilet and 70 nearly full wheelie bins dotted around the site so's everyone has access to water  :)

[Ophi]

Our full plot is £30 for the year and we have a tap on the field.  The only problem is out of nine allotments only three full and two halves are actually tended regularly.  We have scythed the neighbouring plot two years running and have to cut a path to our plot.  We meet the allotment holders every year, they come for a bit, and then we don't see them again.   It is such a shame.

[Unwashed]

The average A4A rent currently stands at £4.72 per pole, and through the magic of statistics I can be 95% confident that the average rent nationally is somewhere between £4.02 and £5.43 per pole, and 50% of us have a rent somewhere between £3.00 and £5.73 per pole.

Plenty of time left to add your site rent to the survey - don't include any discounts, we'd like to compare just the standard cost of a 10 pole plot.  Thanks.

[betula]

£100 to include water,manure and skip.

Private landlord.

[Unwashed]

£100 to include water,manure and skip.

Private landlord.

How big a plot is that Betula, 10 pole?

[persecuted unlimited]

Our rent was increased from £20 to £40 for a full plot, no plots on site are the same size, my husbands half plot is twice the size of my full plot  ???
any new plots are now half plots and they pay £20 rent plus £26.50 subs

[Dizzymac]

 Plots vary in size at our allotments in Didcot Oxfordshire though most are about 10 pole, but price is same for all £22 with concessions for OAP's

[Unwashed]

Our rent was increased from £20 to £40 for a full plot, no plots on site are the same size, my husbands half plot is twice the size of my full plot  ???
any new plots are now half plots and they pay £20 rent plus £26.50 subs

I'm guessing that for a 10 pole plot the rent would be £40 + £26.50 == £66.50?

[Unwashed]

This is how the leage table currently looks.


Keep them coming, the more the merrier.

[goodlife]

I'm repeating your last year's calculation for our circumstances..that was £0.30 per pole.. ;D
Nothing changed for this year... ;D

[Unwashed]

I'm repeating your last year's calculation for our circumstances..that was £0.30 per pole.. ;D
Nothing changed for this year... ;D

30p per pole?  A good life indeed. :)