How much do you pay

[Unwashed]

It's been a while since we had a review and as we've seen some substantial increases on some sites it seems like a good time for another review.

For this year's growing season please say how much you pay, how big your plot is (or the pole rate if you know it), and any details like water or administration charged seperately at a flat rate, etc, and I'll do a running analysis of the effective pole-rate.  Cheers.

I'll kick off:

£6.94/pole

[Unwashed]

[Fork]

£10 per annum this year...my plot is 25m long and 10m wide.....not a clue how many poles that is...maybe somebody could enlighten me please?

The £10 rent covers everything apart from manure.Last year the manure was £18 for a big trailer load dropped at the end of your plot.

[manicscousers]

ours are 22p per square metre as all the plots ars different sizes, includes manure and lime. most come with sheds, for people who haven't a polytunnel, a piece in the communal one. It has been that price for 5 years, we've had to bring in water butts as there is a water problem with the club  :)

[lincsyokel2]

£2.35/pole.  But then, this is Lincolnshire, we have land coming out our ears.

22p a sq m (above post) equates to £6.06 a pole

[saddad]

We are static at £24 per 10 pole plot, water included.  :)

[manicscousers]

thanks for that  ;D

£2.35/pole.  But then, this is Lincolnshire, we have land coming out our ears.

22p a sq m (above post) equates to £6.06 a pole

[macmac]

We pay 84p per linear metre and looking at the bills for our two plots it says one is 28 metres and the other 26 metres didn't realise there was 2 metres difference as there isn't  >:( one's about 2 foot wider than the other but that doesn't count ::)
We have water and that's it.
We've built our own sheds etc ,buy our own manure and if we want to buy seeds, compost or other stuff we have to join the horticultural society £6 annually 'cos they own the hut :(

[flitwickone]

i pay 5 quid per annum and its 20 poles

[jimtheworzel]

i pay £35 for a 60 foot by 45 foot allotment =2700 sqr feet

[Unwashed]

We pay 84p per linear metre and looking at the bills for our two plots it says one is 28 metres and the other 26 metres didn't realise there was 2 metres difference as there isn't  >:( one's about 2 foot wider than the other but that doesn't count ::)
We have water and that's it.
We've built our own sheds etc ,buy our own manure and if we want to buy seeds, compost or other stuff we have to join the horticultural society £6 annually 'cos they own the hut :(

Hi Macmac, how wide are the plots please as best as you can guess?

[Unwashed]

£10 per annum this year...my plot is 25m long and 10m wide.....not a clue how many poles that is...maybe somebody could enlighten me please?

The £10 rent covers everything apart from manure.Last year the manure was £18 for a big trailer load dropped at the end of your plot.

That's 10 poles Fork.  25m²==1 pole

[Unwashed]

ours are 22p per square metre as all the plots ars different sizes, includes manure and lime. most come with sheds, for people who haven't a polytunnel, a piece in the communal one. It has been that price for 5 years, we've had to bring in water butts as there is a water problem with the club  :)

That's £5.50/pole manics - 1 pole=25m².

[Unwashed]

i pay £35 for a 60 foot by 45 foot allotment =2700 sqr feet

That's a tad shy of 10 poles Jim at £3.53/pole.

[sazhig]

I have a full plot (approx 19ft wide x 140ft long) and the rent has gone up by £1 this year ("due to the high water charges") to £19 + £2 association membership fee. Its my first year of paying (last year as my first on an uncultivated plot was free  ;D), but from memory of the fee from my last plot a few years ago I think it's gone up by about a £1 a year over the last few years and the water bill is usually to blame.

[lincsyokel2]

£10 per annum this year...my plot is 25m long and 10m wide.....not a clue how many poles that is...maybe somebody could enlighten me please?

The £10 rent covers everything apart from manure.Last year the manure was £18 for a big trailer load dropped at the end of your plot.

That's 10 poles Fork.  25m²==1 pole

1 pole = 16.5 feet, the length of a horse and plough from the horses nose to the ploughmans heels. Apole is both a unit of length and area

16.5 feet = 5.5 yards = 5.0292 metres

So as area  

1 pole = 5.5 x 5.5 = 30.25 sq yards or 272 sq/ft
1 pole = 5.0292 x 5.0292 = 25.29 sq metres

[macmac]

Hi unwashed one's 20' wide the other 22'.
I believe that all the one's in wsm are priced ('tho perhaps not measured :() the same,we are self managed but I think we follow council prices.
This is a very interesting thread thanks for starting it .

[Unwashed]

If you can measure the width of a typical plot to better than +/-10cm you're doing extremely well considering how ill-defined plot edges can be and how paths can meander, so that gives a fractional error on the measured area of +/-2%, so 25m²==1 pole is quite accurate enough, and it has the advantage of being convenient.

[Unwashed]

League Table £/pole

flitwickone   £0.25
Fork          £1.00
sazhig        £1.94
lincsyokel2   £2.35
saddad        £2.40
macmac        £3.33
jimtheworzel  £3.53
manicscousers £5.50
Unwashed      £6.94

I'm 90% confident that the average rent is in the range £1.94 - £4.11, and most likely it's £3.03.

[Unwashed]

This was last year's analysis.   If you pay a concessionary rate can you please quote the full rate to make the analysis fair.  Thanks.

[nodig]

£2.85/pole