What's the most you would be prepared to pay for allotment rent?

[heebiejeebie]

My plot is £46 per annum and has no water, no road access and no extras at all. Thankfully it borders my garden so I can run a link from my water butt to the lottie water butt and pop home to use the loo! I share it with a neighbour so we pay £23 each. I think we recouped the cost in produce even last year which was poor.

I'd be prepared to pay more because it is an important part of my life (but don't tell 'em that).

[allotmentlady]

Rent

Our is 36.00 per plot and if you want to join the society it is 5.25 a year! Oh it is only 18.00 if your elderly or disabled. I am disabled so only pay the 18.00, it includes water and services from the council, although they dont mow the grass or tidy the paths unless some bigwig from the council is coming down for a meeting or something, which is onlce every blue moon. Some of the council dont even know we exist!

[mazel-bee]

Blimey!

I am paying £52 a year, it is a site that has not been used for years and is in a complete mess. We also have rabbits! I feel like i am getting a bad deal here!

[lawless23456]

how much?

hello all

how much do you pay for your allotments? and is it paid yearly or monthly?

thanks in advance

lawrence

[Lacelotte]

I pay £18 per year with water included. Got the first 6 months free too as it was overgrown when I took it on

[Flummery]

£14 a full plot with water. I've only got a half and they are not standard sized plots - they're a bit smaller than usual.

[Shortie]

Hi Lawrence, I've merged your thread into this one as there's quite a few answers here that might help

[Jimbojones]

Hi

I pay £53 a year for a 10 rod plot, we have water, toilets and some of us have brick sheds to keep our tools in. We are being told by the council we are very cheap but reading this, I don't think we are. However I would be willing to pay more to keep the plot as I have put a lot of work into it and to be honest, what other hobby could anyone have that costs £1 a week and the benefits I get out of it, healthy organic food, exercise and if you work out the food you don't have to buy through growing your own, it easily pays for itself.

[JO,JO]

i would pay anything as i we have not got any in our village, they are all privatley owned

[Dotski McWellie]

Just paid today for the year. £19. Plus £2 for insurance. The downside is you get a plot in the state the last person left it (which can mean a whole lot of work - I was left stinking water butts, a horrible builders sack full of heavy soil and weeds and an awful metal thing used badly as a compost heap...it is taking a long time to conquer the waste) but I think a lot of people on this site would accept these conditions just to get a plot at a fair price.

Dotski McWellie

[sewer rat]

Dunno what allotments up here go for as there are only a very few. I don't know if you wanna try and convert what I pay for my rent to allotment size but I pay £250 per acre.

[Garden_girlie21]

I haven't got an allotment yet, but according to the site's website, it's £28 for rent nad water for a full sized plot.

I'm just dying for an allotment - going to visit some this afternoon to see if any other sites have any vacancies - my hopes aren't very high, they're in so much demand at the moment!


Jennifer

[Mrs Dobby]

We paid for our plots last week, 40 each for the 2 full ones and 20 for the half one we are going to give up (cant until the spuds are up!), so a total of 100 for the year!

[Plot17B]

We have a half plot, but i think it is a non-standard council size (it's a private allotment site). So we have 200 sq yds (42yard x 5) and we pay £20 per year plus £5 for water. Each plot length has its own self-filling water tank arrangement, so for £25 per year all told, it's a complete bargain we think.

[cgg]

Definitely sounds like a bargain. I'm paying just under £40 a year for a 5 and a half rod plot (£7.15 per rod). We do have breeze block built lockable sheds, toilets and running water and the entire site is fenced and secure so we're paying for the ameneties as well as the land rental. I feel very safe when I'm there on my own which is worth the money in itself.