Allotment - which plot and what to do first

warehouse

ally18 wrote: »

Wow, £250 :eek:. I didn't realise there was such a huge price difference over the country.

My £30 a year is for a plot on the outskirts of London. I think it's down to individual councils.

Kantankrus_Mare

I'd love to know how they come up with the varying prices?

Here's me in Lincolnshire being one of the cheapest property prices in the country paying £88 a year for my plot and in London where property is unaffordable for most the plot cost is £30 a year?

Really dont understand. :cool:

Orange_King

No problem wellused - i just wasn't sure where you were coming from on that question!

It is hard to believe that some members are getting an allotment for next to nothing and while the price quoted to me is a sizeable amount to a lot of people, I think I can make it work for me if I'm in it for the long haul!

As I say, our provision is lousy in this area - I'm just surprised he has vacancies with growing your own so popular.

Daisymaisy

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

I'd love to know how they come up with the varying prices?

Here's me in Lincolnshire being one of the cheapest property prices in the country paying £88 a year for my plot and in London where property is unaffordable for most the plot cost is £30 a year?

Really dont understand. :cool:

I suppose it depends on the greed of individual councils and what they think they can get away with. As a London resident I'd love to know where allotments are £30 a year, are they accessed through the back of a wardrobe? . I have an 8 rod plot and I pay £80 a year but this is because my allotment site is self managed, it would be twice this or more if it were council managed.

wellused

The council who own my allotment site from last year used an outside contractor to administer and run all allotment sites in the borough, last year they apparently said that they would be raising the rents but the committee pointed out that they had to give us a certain amount of notice before doing that so the company backed down but said that the rents would rise this year. I have just received the bill for the next 12 months rent and was amazed to find that they had held the rents at last years prices but warned that the rent would rise next year from £3 to £3.20 per pole, that makes a full 10 pole plot £32 per year or if like me you are over the age of 60 or disabled the price is halved to £16, now that is good value.

warehouse

Daisymaisy wrote: »

As a London resident I'd love to know where allotments are £30 a year, are they accessed through the back of a wardrobe? . I have an 8 rod plot and I pay £80 a year but this is because my allotment site is self managed, it would be twice this or more if it were council managed.

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