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Just been reading some old threads about allotment prices and people musing they might be prepared to pay £50 per year, well ours here in good old n e lincs is wait for it £75 per year, granted weve water taps and are allowed sheds and green houses but security is appalling......... weve had a at least 4 break in within 3 months, the little critters break open the sheds and scatter things all over the place, one old chaps had his shed broken into and they took off with his rotivator........ we have high security fences round us but guess what theyve ( the council) have just removed the lock on the gates for a 3 month trial period !!!!!!!!!! crazy ot what, and all this for £75, sometimes it just gets to you, there now all my tension and frustration has melted away now my grumpy old women bit came to the fore.
Any one else paying high rent......... or have c*** security ?

just down the road in scunny and our rent is only £21 a year at the moment... but management are incompetent (rotavating plots that had spuds planted, and in my case giving me a plot that was still flipping occupied! so spent 2 months digging and had to give it all up for a plot knee high in flipping weeds). Think i'd rather have £75 rent (oh and we have the 'critters' too, darlings that they are)

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ours is now £46 per year we have no security at all, our fences are delapidated and the council provide no services whatsoever! they wont even take the aspestos that was once a shed but is now just massive sheets of aspestos too big for the car and we cant afford to have them removed!

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High rent of £75 a year ! That's about £1.25 a week ! Not even sweetie money. Maybe it's just me but I just don't know what people expect to get for nothing.

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£10. a year just gone up was only 8 last year

we have water can have sheds , greenhouses , chickens , goats , ducks and geese some even have those white doves

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Ours local council charges £3.80 per perch. My plot is 5 perch which is about 125sq meters and costs me £19 - a bargain in my eyes. We've got water, are allowed sheds and greenhouses and the site rep told me they've not had any trouble with vandels, so fingers crossed I got me a good little site

Ours is £15 a year; they rotavated it for that but then you're on your own. No water, no security, they have just let the one plot that people have been using to park on so NO idea how that's going to work. Luckily, my plot has a little bit that I can reverse onto.

We have unsafe wells to draw water from, so we have bought a pump. We are allowed sheds and chickens. The road is unadopted so as bumpy as you like; we will walk when we can, but at the moment we are always taking our compost/seedlings/bottles of water to water new plants in/herbs/shop bought rhubarb etc and it's far too heavy to carry.

I think as soon as you add security, it encourages the little rascals to try and break in...we deliberately bought cheap tools from Wilko in case of break ins; which has proved a good decision as the tools themselves are actually fabulous.

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i think i agree about putting fences etc on allotments the mentaility is wow whats in there to steal, i dont lock my shed cos they just batter it down and like you bought my tools from wilkos they saerve a purpose and if they go its not 2 bad, my hubby bought me a huge tool store for xmas we locked it and guess what the little darlings smashed the lock hinges and everything didnt take anything but left it open to the rain and snow so i had a lovely soggy mess to clear up,, oh well i suppose their mums love them !

hi scunny why cant managment get their heads together re security etc, the critters just get away with it all the time think of it this way one day theyll get their lol