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I've just paid for my ground rent for my half plot which cost me £28 for the year.  I was wondering what everyone else pays?  When I took the plot on 5 years ago, it was £14, I think this is a huge leap.  My plot is in North Hertfordshire.

This is a regularly recurring topic. We pay £20, up from £10 two years ago and going up to £24 in October for 300sq yards... cheap at twice the price...  ;D

And twice the price is what we pay!

Chessington @ £50 per full plot

That's about the city average here, it was £48 pa several years ago..  :-X

Same old supply and demand. Allotments become trendy and the price goes up :-\ Trouble is, i don't think we will see them come down again.

I'm only £32 a year for a double plot in Glasgow, but I have to pay for my own machine guns  ;)

here's a similar thread:

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,46121.msg520959.html#msg520959

Quote from: sawfish on May 05, 2009, 10:53:55
I'm only £32 a year for a double plot in Glasgow, but I have to pay for my own machine guns  ;)

here's a similar thread:

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,46121.msg520959.html#msg520959

Why a machine gun?

I paid £22.50 for shares each plot holder pays a different one off amount, then its £3.50 per year

making a joke about the old 'Glasgows a scary place thing' which isn't true anyway.

I paid £20 last year for 200 sq mtrs, don,t know what this years rent is yet. Would happily pay twice that!!

£4.70/pole, up 15% from last year.

For quite a few of our tenants the council can't actually increase the rent at all because the tenancy agreement doesn't make provision, and if I understand it right the unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 means that landlords can't increase the rent arbitrarily, only by CPI or similar - so we should expect cheaper rents next year!  The Regulations also require 12 month's notice of increase.  My council ignores all that and does what it likes, but I'm trying to change that.

28.50 for 10 rods, including water.

Maidstone, Kent.

My two full sized plots cost £19 (total) including water.

I think this is half price  (age thing!)

sorry if this upsets a few but I pay £ 3 a year for 3 plots and this includes water.and discounted compost fertalisers etc from the stores  . Ours is a village site and we have had a grant off the community council to get 20+ tons of manure delivered .Get this though...this is the first year in the 5 that I've been on the site that all the plots are taken

Quote from: bedrockdave on May 05, 2009, 12:26:31
sorry if this upsets a few but I pay £ 3 a year for 3 plots and this includes water.and discounted compost fertalisers etc from the stores  . Ours is a village site and we have had a grant off the community council to get 20+ tons of manure delivered .Get this though...this is the first year in the 5 that I've been on the site that all the plots are taken

:o :o :o I've just choked on my cuppa

to provide a smidgeon of perspective ... in the middle of the 19th century it is estimated that our allotment forefathers paid in the region of one week's wages for a labourer for a quarter of an acre.

If you substitute the average weekly wage in April 2008 the equivalent cost today comes out at around £12 per pole, i.e. £60 for 5 poles or £120 for 10 poles.

What facilities did they have - er, none ... discount for senior citizens - WHATA?!

What was the take up? ... demand exceeded supply.

But the actual cost is only one factor.

Is the site secure? Is the access & parking good? Is there water? Are there toilets? Do you have free extras like manure, wood chippings, pallets, etc? Are there tools you can borrow? Can you have sheds & greenhouses? Is the site a friendly one? Are there communal social activities? Is the Committee on the ball? Is the site run-down or thriving?

For the record, a 5-pole on our site is £12 a year. Ridiculously cheap! (Especially as we have a waiting list and the answer to much of the above is in the affirmative!)

Here we pay £21 a year for up to 250sqm, which i think is great even if we do only get water and land. I'm even trying to get a 2nd plot as our site has lots of empty ones. My stepson wants to get one in 1066s area as he has no garden at all. I think allotments are wonderful places  :)

22p per square metre, includes secure fencing all around, manure, wood, paved paths everywhere, water..only thing missing is a toilet  ;D

Just down the road from you  PJW ;)

Our 2 plots are split, 1 at full price £56  :o , and the other in Granmda's name to get the old farts discount ;D - so £84  :o

Or maybe £1.60 a week feels better  :P

Water included, but fence them yourself 'cos NHDC cant be bothered to do it  >:(