Allotments 4 All
Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: PJW_Letchworth on March 26, 2011, 22:23:52
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Hi All! I've not been here for ages!
I've just had a letter from my council saying the fees for a 5 pole plot have increased to £56. This has doubled since last year. :o
What do you all pay for your plots and where in the UK are you?
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Been a while. If you do a quick search, there are a number of recent threads on this topic. Most sites have seen a drastic rise in rents; some much more than yours. Your rent is around the average mark, with some much less but many costing much more.
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£40 here in Hanham, South Glos
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You might find the link below will help with typical costs and action you can take. Hope it helps, John
http://allotmentheaven.blogspot.com/2010/11/increase-in-allotment-rents.html
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£17 a year for 1/16th of an acre. Not sure what that is in rods
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Unwashed did a good survey last year, it would be good to have that updated to track increases.
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:)Hi all my rent for allotment is £5 for the year,
allotment in Brentwood Essex
twins59
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Hi All,
This subject comes up every year - so I'm gonna brag again!
Has gone up this year for TWO full size plots to £10!
Not a council jobbie of course, a piece of ground belonging to the 2 Church Wardens.
;D
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There is a rule that the council can only increase the price of leisure activities by the same percentage.
So, if your council has doubled the cost of one leisure activity and only increased that of another by less. Then you can point out to them that they are acting illegally.
Check on how much other leisure activities have increased in your area to see if you are being fleeced.
If all the incriments are all 10% 100% or even 1000000%. Then there is nothing you can do other than by your vote.
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we have had a 52% increase in our rent this year
I had a rant about it back in October time when rent was due... it is still cheap for what we get, but still not as cheap as it used to be
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A rumour tells me that ours is going up 30% to £9.70 per pole, I haven't done my figures yet. :'( :'( :-\
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Mine works out at £11.20 per pole if you have a half plot or £10.80 for a full plot. Unfair if you ask me. :(
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The facts are
1........You can not get the facility cheaper else where can you?
2..........There are more people wanting an allotment than there are allotments so if you have one. You are lucky.
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£5 per year in Chelmsford, Essex.
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we pay £15 a year or at least we did last year, haven't had our renewal notice yet for this year, but we get sod all help of the council, we had to organise a grant to get the water turned on and pay for fencing ourselfs.
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£60 a year for a 10 rod pt, up from £41 last year, and £30 about 5 years ago. This in Caterham, Surrey. Cheap in terms of buying or renting some land, but frankly getting to be a bit of a p take, as no matter what the cost it can't possibly make any material difference to the Council budgets.
Tony
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Ours has been £20 for the past 3 or 4 years.....this year its £10.Although we are a council owned site,we set out own rent.
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Unwashed did a good survey last year, it would be good to have that updated to track increases.
That would be interesting wouldn't it. I think there have been some substantial increases this year. I'll start a thread in The Basics.
I paid my bill for a ten-pole plot a couple of weeks ago - £47.10 this year. It was £47.10 last year too, and £47.10 the year before that as well. ;) Read your tenancy agreement - if their isn't a fair term to allow the landlord to impose an increase with sufficient notice then the increase can't be enforced.
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I've started a thread here (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,66485.0.html) to see what we're all paying - coupld you postthere the size of your plot as well as your rent so we can compare the price per pole. Thanks.
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£20 yearly here in Springburn, Glasgow.
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£58 this year for a full plot in Liverpool
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£25 here but as Johnmac says above we managed to halt a 100% increase for next year instead it's being increased to £27.50 for about 250 m2...plot sizes are quite variable on our site mine is a little less than this.
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Just received a letter from Barnet Council. Fees are going up next year from £5.90 per pole to £17 per pole for Barnet residents. 300% increase!! £34 per pole for non-Barnet residents. The extra income should keep a few extra pencil pushers in their jobs on the council.
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23pounds and 25 pence for 5 poles in Slough. This includes water, toilets, an onsite shop,(although there is a small membership fee yearly for this) regular waste removal and sometimes a lorry load of manure. Rent is the same as last year.
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ours in tameside are
2011 £46
2012 £80 plus water rates
2013 £100 plus water rates
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£1 a year here in sunny South wales valley's and this is the first year in the last 8 that I have been on the site that it is full . I have had 3 plots to keep them tidy but have let one go this year because we had a waiting list of 1!!!
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For a full plot at our site in Liverpool,its £33 for basic rent plus £11.25 for subs,wtaer etc
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as I said earlier we are £20 a year here in Glasgow but our plots are about 400m2
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The cost of running an allotment (ADMINISTRATION) far out weighs the cost of running an allotment.
Get your selves self managed.
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£58 this year for a full plot in Liverpool
which site are you?we are on sudley
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Just gone up to £ 26.00 but i got 1 year free as its overgrown ! Thats in Sandwell in the Black Country inc water .I think its very good dont you ?
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I paid my bill for a ten-pole plot a couple of weeks ago - £47.10 this year. It was £47.10 last year too, and £47.10 the year before that as well. ;) Read your tenancy agreement - if their isn't a fair term to allow the landlord to impose an increase with sufficient notice then the increase can't be enforced.
Out of interest are you the guy Newbury council had to apologise to? If so well done!
Jon
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Bit confusing here but I think we're up to £13.70 per rod this year in Greenwich (from £6.50), and then it's up to £20 per rod year after that. We have six rods. But then I got a bill for £9.70, (quarter?) and the council refunded us £142 because they've been overcharging us since we got the plot 7 years ago. ???
Whatever they're charging us it's still cheaper than a gym membership ;D, but amount of aggro they've been giving us (the ersatz consultation process) about all of this has been really annoying. >:(