The end of the Pole?

[Martin H]

My attention was drawn to this article today in the "Daily Fail":

Metric zealots axe 600-year-old rules on allotments and force holders to stop using traditional terms | Mail Online

Has anyone come across this at their own allotments?

[Bigmallly]

I never could get my head round a rod, perch or pole.............

[Olorin2001]

1 rod = 25 square metres roughtly,
which is also roughly 25 square yards if you want to be slighly modern without going metric.
Doesn't really matter what you call it, in reality it only ever seems to be used when calculating rents. Any change from price per rod to price per square metre will only reasult in the costs being higher, same as with metrication when everything was rounded up.
The only thing I recall having to price rounded down in 1971 was admission to Kew Gardens.

[Aberdeenplotter]

1 rod = 25 square metres roughtly,
which is also roughly 25 square yards if you want to be slighly modern without going metric.
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tsk,it's 30 ¼ squ yds .

I don't see any need for any increase due to metrification. 10 poles = 300 squ yds (approx) = 250 squ metres (approx) and it all = a full sized plot (apart from Binners who has twice that).

The pressure on plot rents is coming from the politics of freezing Council Tax. yes that is frozen but Councils are instead picking off vulnerable groups like plotters one by one to generate extra income. Head zipped up the back it is not.

[Alison]

Doesn't affect our site anyway as despite the plots being of slightly varied size they're all the same rent (£24 for a full plot, not sure for a half sized one, about £15 I think) with 50% discount for OAPs

[chris]

As above, ours aren't "full" plots by standard sizing, but they're classed as that. Perch I believe is used on my site - more so for tradition I think rather than everything else - as it used to be like 10 allotments, but its now more like 25 without much expansion.

[Olorin2001]

tsk,it's 30 ¼ squ yds .

I don't see any need for any increase due to metrification. 10 poles = 300 squ yds (approx) = 250 squ metres (approx) and it all = a full sized plot (apart from Binners who has twice that).

The pressure on plot rents is coming from the politics of freezing Council Tax. yes that is frozen but Councils are instead picking off vulnerable groups like plotters one by one to generate extra income. Head zipped up the back it is not.

Frozen council tax????? Lucky you, mine has increased by 5%
The upside is that allotment rents remain unchanged for this year at least.