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hi have just paid the rent on allotment £22.50 for a full plot and £11.25 if on benefits or you are an oap
how muchdo you pay for your plots just to get a general picture of rents across the country

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£5 for the year (used to be £1 not many years ago!) These plots are in rural Oxfordshire and have no facilities to speak of - I don't think there's even water available. I'm not sure if we're allowed a shed - don't seem to be any on the site, and no 'permanent' fruit trees (soft fruit is ok). Still glad to have one though as it's a 2 minute walk from my house.

Mine are £16.00 each for the year (i've got two) and they are about 9 x 17m each.

We have toilets and water available, you are allowed a shed but I can't afford one at the mo.

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Bex

I pay £15 a year for half a plot. The site has toilet facilities, running water and we get regular deliveries of wood chipping, compost and manure, all included in the rent. We also have a common mower and rotavator that we can use and petrol is included as well. I personally don't think it's too bad.

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£18 for a half plot; £36 for a full plot. Water tap around every 10 plots. Main grass tracks cut by council every month or so in summer. No other facilities or deliveries. Shed/greenhouses up to 6'x8' if prior permission sought.

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Updated 13th September

£28 for 250m2 = 11.2p/m2.

Bex = 10.5p/m2

So mine is not the cheapest?

Formula is rent divided by area

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£2.20 per pole at our allotment (we have a 10 pole) with water taps every 6 plots. A shop with reduced seeds / netts / compost etc. Toilet. free horse poo from a local horse riding school (you need to just put your name on a list and it appears at the end of your allotment - like a the poo fairy). general machines can be used (but they ask for a small donation to go to the local hospic).

£18 pounds for a half plot. approx 10m x15m.

£25 for full plot, water & communal rotavator/lawnmower/tools/etc just pay £1 a time for petrol on the power tools and like MD its only a 2min walk from home

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Ours are council run, and we pay £36 pa full price or £18 for concessions. We have water and a skip for rubbish (no bonfires allowed )
Not a bad price really, less than £1 per week.

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Silverfox - not sure I like the idea of a poo fairy Just imagine the mess if the poo fairy & the tooth fairy job-swapped!

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I wish we had a poo fairy! We have to either pay £20 for a load or go and fetch for free in our car. Magic for nothing sounds wonderful.

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Ours is £78 per annum, might be the highest in the north east.
All the best
Fred P

So.... you all get gold plated forks or what Fred? Seems a bit on the high side!

The site I'm on is run by the town council and costs £35 per annum. We have water from Easter to October. We have water from spring to autumn, but no fires.

MB did not mention the size of our lottie (300sq yards +)
I will get MB to post photos later on.

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£ 14.50 a year for a plot 25' by 80' this also includes membership to the national allotment association .
water is a stream , sheds and polytunnels and fires are allowed and only nine rules. ( only know one and was told by the chair man if i break any of the other eight he will let me know if he can remember ! )
we also have a poo fairy , pig muck delivered strait to the plot.

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Mine is run by a private charity in East London. It's about 45m long by 6m wide and costs £30 rent to the charity and £10 subs to the allotment to cover the water rates etc.

ours are council run £1.60 per pole OAPs half price water butts March to october sheds allowed no bigger than 8x6 greenhouses polytunnels also no bonfires 1 hour before dusk or they get put out by locals

Mine is £25 a year, managed by local town council. Water provided (approx 1 tap per 4 plots), locked gate, sheds allowed, manure provided free, grass cut regularly by guys testing out mowers from old flymo factory.

I was also offered a larger, association run plot in a nearby village at a rent of £12 per year but plumped for the council one because it was less isolated!

Seems to be a variety of rents paid across the country with South Shields being the most expensive!

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Julie

£32.00 a year for a 252m2 water/ B fire site/ Sheds and green houses not a problem.
Its council run and a quick phone call and you got leaf mould/ chippings/ compost. Got a local farm for muck £15.00 a load but i get mine free cos i used to work for him Chooks are fine to, So not bad in my eyes.

Private allotment association site
rent = £13.39
NSALG fee = £1.75
Local garden federation fee = £1.00
Insurance = £2.50
Water = £4.00

Total = £22.64 for half a plot.

Already recovered more than this with the discount at the local nursery.

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£36 per full plot.
Includes BAR, Shop,Canteen.
Sub committess for Chicks, Bees, Social Club.

If you have trees on your plot you are not allowed to chop them. If they need to come down you need to repace them with the same viarity before you cut them down.

Consesions..Unemployed must pay £100 and can use any of the amienites.Cos they should be out looking for a job and not gardening.

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