How much does your plot cost?

[Gillykat]

I've just become the proud tenant of a half plot with water and pay £35 per year which IMO is an absolute bargain!!!

Previous tenant left it in good nick too with a shed, greenhouse and polytunnel

[Sharpy]

£42 for a full plot here in Maidstone, that includes water. Worth every penny.

[plotman]

£25-00 for full plot in west wilts. Water provided. No discounts and thats something i personally agree with. Keep it the same and fair for everyone

Just had letter from council this morn. Still £25 for full plot this year, but going up to £40 a year in three yrs time. Thjey advise us its going up £5-00 a year for next three years to bring it in line with other authorities (

[plotman]

£25-00 for full plot in west wilts. Water provided. No discounts and thats something i personally agree with. Keep it the same and fair for everyone

[suzybob]

Our plot is 50m x 10m and is £48 per year. Mains water tap 6 feet away from our plot. Main gate padlocked and 1st key is free but a fiver if you need a new key. No other facilities.

[21up]

£32-50
125 sq mts includes £10 water £10 grass cutting on main path half plot.
full plot still £10 grass and £10 water.shop on site prices too expensive
no toilet shop opens 10-30==to 11-30 sunday am.
Bad parking
cheers

[Lumpy]

Plot and all water is free but the family who own the small stately home where it is want a third of produce that is available, We decided what they can have and when.

[Dorothy rouse]

My invoice gas just arrived, Plot size 142 ? ( SQ mtrs?) half plot. £27.35,+ £15.00 Shed, ( v small shed).

No loos. Free chippings

Allotment shop open Sundays, stuff at very good prices, seed potatoes, onion sets, and seeds a third off. Etc.

[ejlg85]

Mine costs £7 a rod and I have one plot which is 5 rods and one plot which is 10 rods. So this year a total cost of £105. Water is included and we get periodic deliveries of bark chip. £12 extra for a key and £5 extra for yearly membership of allotment association.
We don't have loos on site but there are some public toilets nearby. There is an allotment shop but it services all of salisburys allotment sites and isn't on-site.

This is salisbury council. Seems like mine is on the expensive side?

[sparrow100]

I count myself very lucky as I don't have to rent a plot. Is everyone's plot council run or are there people who rent from private landowners?

Ours is self-managed on a lease from the council, which is something the council would like all its 24 sites to be. It does make most things fairly easy to sort.

[Bacchus]

I count myself very lucky as I don't have to rent a plot. Is everyone's plot council run or are there people who rent from private landowners?

[Nicola.P]

£16 a year for 2.5 rods (61sqm) free water, that is all. Oh and a lock for the shed as main gate doesn't lock.
No toilets.

[Damian Jay]

I got my 5 rod plot in October last year (2014)
Fareham has three Allotment sites all part of the same group.

The total cost for my first year is £28.75

Cost breakdown is as follows:

£2.65 per rod = £13.75
Key Deposit = £14.00
Subs = £1.00 (Although not sure what that's actually for)

What we get:

- Our own onsite car park with locking gates.
- 1 flush toilet & sink fully stocked with loo roll, soap, cleaning equipment, paper towels, waste bin. All contained in it's own small building with electric light and frosted windows (no curtains though), again fully lockable.
- Large very well equipped shop open weekends from 8am till 12 midday. Lots of provisions at great cheap prices.
- Allowed to have a shed and greenhouse each must be no bigger than 6 x 8 foot. (Some plots have two sheds with a gap between them. The owners have then put a roof over the top and panelled in the back with pallets. Then made two swing open doors on the front. The whole thing when closed up is one huge storage area lol)
- Free water courtesy of Fareham Borough Council (although this may be changing in 2016) with taps sited around the whole site with large containers underneath. No plot is more than 4 plots away from a tap. We DO have to keep the containers under the taps filled with water. Not such a hardship really.
- A large area where every so often compost / manure / leaves get put in there and you can help yourself. Unless the 'Private' sign is displayed, then it's hands off people lol.
- The whole site is enclosed by a sturdy fence and surrounded by trees and woodland. I'm right at the back of the site next to the boundary fence. The other side of which is a few trees then quite a wide stream / small river. Then woodland, only used by dog walkers.
- Very friendly, helpful and knowledgeable plot holders who are great to chat with. But don't keep nattering for very long.
- 12 months a year access whenever we want.
- At this time of year the beautiful sounds of nature, and peace and quiet (ok so the odd train goes past every so often, but even that just blends into the surroundings)
- A fantastic escape from people, work and the computer.
- A great site manager too.

What we don't get:

- A clubhouse
- Any form of social activity apart from the AGM (which is in November, and was very funny to attend. Lots of bickering among a few plot holders who don't like how things are run, yet won't put themselves forward for the committee so they can make changes.)
- Any form of website / forum for just the Fareham plot holders to chat among ourselves, which could be useful as Fareham has the three allotment sites plus the gardens side of things. I think the gardens bit is people who use their own gardens either as allotments or for growing flowers and then opening up their gardens for charity.

So on the whole, and from reading what other people have put ...... WOW ... I am very lucky.

(Edit: I thought this was my 50th post. Dammit!!! I mis-counted my post count. I so wanted my 50th post to be meaningful. Oops)

[emzgogo]

£46 for plot one and my 2nd which is attached is £30sumit. 20p1m2. Free water right outside my plot ☺. Its more expensive than the town halls allotment but vertually no rules which is great tbh. Its owned by a different council but we all left to it.

[Bohobumble]

£13.76 for a full plot, less for smaller.

tap is 3 plots away, no shop or committee, tho the older members who know the councillor who dishes out the plots consider themselves as such.

members informally arrange group purchase of manure from local farmer. they're a friendly enough bunch