How much does your plot cost?

[Anarchy84]

I pay £10 per year per plot. I have 3 plots side by side and use them as one. They are 25 meter x 10 meter each. There is no water supply.

[andy_j]

I pay £15 for a 10m x 12m half plot....double for a full size. Includes water but that's it.

I'd actually like to see the rents go up and drag the site into the 21st century and purchase a community shed, rotorvator, strimmer as well as a few other improvements.

[jimslad]

my plot on the private site is £80 p/a,plot size size -17yd's x 10yds , and on my new one a council site £30p/a, plot size 22yd's x 9yd's , the private site has free water , but no hoses , and some free horse manure yearly .

[sotonallotment]

Here in Southampton I pay £60 a year with water plus £3 emergency fund and £4.10 for SAGA (Southampton Allotments and Gardens Assoc) membership. Plot is 10 rods. I think it's quite reasonable but reading other people's rents I'm a little envious.

[lottieheaven]

we have half width plots ie 5 rods wide 10 rods long. We have fresh running water taps along the plot and each plot costs £15 per year. We have the added benefit that there are two ponies right next door which we are allowed to gather manure from FOC.

[Dynamo]

My plot is about 200 square metres and costs me £5 a year. There's no water supplied but lots of plots have a well or they borrow a hosepipe from the surrounding houses. I collect all the water I need from off my shed roof.

I'm in Teesside and the lotties are owned by the membership. Some lady gave the land to the allotment owners many years ago.

[avierose]

Mine is 148sq meters at 20p per meter (£29.60) with communal access to water. But they have just introduced a £10 membership fee to raise money for site Maintanence. So all in all £39.60 for my slice of never ending, back breaking weeding.

Is it usual that you are charged for the area that includes one of the grass paths?


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[iGrow]

What size is your plot?

[drm1975]

£15 a year for full plot with water but im going to get my own water butt soon

[Mumbles]

That's what I was thinking, although tripling the price does seem a bit steep!


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[Katinkia]

I'm still waiting for my plot but do know that the rent has gone from £20 + water for 2013-2014 to nearly £60 + water for 2014-2015! Although I think this increase is absolutely crazy I'm hoping it means I get closer to the top of the waiting list 😗


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Apparently that's why some are coming up soon on national ave. Hope you get one too. I wonder if that's why they've put up the price. So they can get some people off the list or off allotments they are not using enough.


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[Mumbles]

I'm still waiting for my plot but do know that the rent has gone from £20 + water for 2013-2014 to nearly £60 + water for 2014-2015! Although I think this increase is absolutely crazy I'm hoping it means I get closer to the top of the waiting list 😗


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[nic73bay]

I've just paid for mine and it's 31p per sqmtr plus 13p per sqmtr for water. I paid £44.44 for my 101 sqmtrs this year. Our site has security fencing, parking, taps at regular intervals between plots, toilet facilities and a shop to buy seeds, composts, etc at competitive rates. Plus if you pay £5 per year to the society for membership you get extra discount in the shop.


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[iGrow]

Self managed is not necessarily the way to go. On the site that I have a couple of 10 rod plots there is a public footpath so the site cannot be made secure. A little while ago somebody fly tipped some asbestos and it cost the council over £2,000 to have it removed. If that cost had been passed onto the growers then I suspect a lot would have given up. To answer the original question, rent is £20 per annum (no water facilities).

[MarkHackwell]

£42 for a 120sq metre plot but got half a hedge in mine