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Hi UWI have phoned Wantage and they told me something different to how you have interpreted it ? :(They have a waiting list and don't do anything to the site at all :-[Their rate is £3-33 for about 1.5 pole and £6.00 for a large pole.If your rate is £4-71 ??? how can they be cheaper ???Who pays to cut your main paths, hedges. Who pays for control of rats, water rates, fencing etc. Do you get reminders to pay for your allotment ?All this would be an added benefit and cost that you don't have to pay. :oVW
Thank you for your request for information concerning allotments. It is broadly the Council's aim that allotments should be a net nil cost to it. The annual income is just of £2,100 per annum and the direct costs are in the region of £1,750 per annum. The staff cost to support is about 30 hours per annum at a cost in the region of £350. Councillors themselves put a fair bit of effort into inspecting allotments but receive no payment for it. The Town Council has 5 sites with space for 180 plots. Currently 150 are let. The Town Council has a duty under the Allotment Acts to provide allotments but as indicated, its aim is that the costs should be fully recovered from the tenants.
£73 .23p on admin?? that's bl**dy good value to the local rate-payers!! ought to be up for a prize of some sort!! ;)
Their rate is £3-33 for about 1.5 pole and £6.00 for a large pole.If your rate is £4-71 Huh how can they be cheaper Huh
In reply, the deputy leader of the council, Julian Swift-Hook (Lib Dem, Pyle Hill), said he could not make a commitment on behalf of the council to meet with the society,