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ktlawson, are your plots full or half plots.Don't worry about converting to £/pole if you don't know - if you say how big and how much I'll do the math, and I'll post a summary in a bit.
£37 for 10 pole.
Is that the right rent for a five pole plot at your site, or would it still be £19.00?
How many poles to the foot? I have a 300 Sq. foot plot or 0.25 of a rood and for this i pay £76.45 plus water Which this year is £11.20. I think this must be one of the top rates in the country. The old blokes on site say that the rate until three years ago way only about £20 or £30 a year and then the council wanted them off the site so they could build on it, so put the rents up. We are now in the allotment union!!! :-\
Not every site charges per pole, and some sites include fees and subs on top of the plot so it's not always easy to make a direct comparison, so I've compared the standard all-in cost of a five-pole plot as that's a reasonably representative size of plot.
Hi Tony, see what I've said here about the basis of the comparison:Quote from: Unwashed on January 02, 2010, 12:53:42Not every site charges per pole, and some sites include fees and subs on top of the plot so it's not always easy to make a direct comparison, so I've compared the standard all-in cost of a five-pole plot as that's a reasonably representative size of plot.So from what you've said a 5 pole plot on one of your sites with water would cost £10 + £6 + £3 = £19.00 giving a comparable pole rate of £3.80. On a site without water it'll be £2.60 so I'll add a line for that.Choosing a different basis for comparison will change the comparison, so sites will rank differently compared on the basis of a 10 or 20 pole plot, but I figure 5 poles is a pretty popular size so that's the size I used for the comparison.
out of over 1,000 plots in our association, about 6 of them are 5 rod!! the rest are mostly 10 rods, or multiples of.