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Not sure this is where to put this but here goes!
In our area I understand that allotmenteers are being asked to fork out 250% of there previous rents this year across the watter in Gateshead.
Luckily we have missed the cuts (Newcastle area) and are only being charged 3% more than last year to cover inflation.
To put this into perspective, if you payed £40 last year you would be asked to pay £100 this year.
This is the governments way of bringing down allotment waiting lists because no one will want them!
Disturbingly, as secretary of our allotment site, I've just received correspondence to say that our plot rents will rise to at least 150% next year and the Allotment Officers pay will now come out of the general budget.
Is this a general trend across the Country?
If so, the allotment movement will soon become so full of 'yuppies' the only ones who can afford the plots, that they'll employ the likes of us peasants to cultivate them for them.
This goes against the whole ethos of allotment gardens which were supposedly set up to so that the plotholder could feed his family cheaply.
In our area I understand that allotmenteers are being asked to fork out 250% of there previous rents this year across the watter in Gateshead.
Luckily we have missed the cuts (Newcastle area) and are only being charged 3% more than last year to cover inflation.
To put this into perspective, if you payed £40 last year you would be asked to pay £100 this year.
This is the governments way of bringing down allotment waiting lists because no one will want them!Disturbingly, as secretary of our allotment site, I've just received correspondence to say that our plot rents will rise to at least 150% next year and the Allotment Officers pay will now come out of the general budget.
Is this a general trend across the Country?
If so, the allotment movement will soon become so full of 'yuppies' the only ones who can afford the plots, that they'll employ the likes of us peasants to cultivate them for them.
This goes against the whole ethos of allotment gardens which were supposedly set up to so that the plotholder could feed his family cheaply.
.....seriously, I believe it is just the increase in rents.
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