[Comfry_Kid]

Hi all - just wondering what your average annual fee for allotments are- I have just noticed apes1978 pays £16.44 a year - where i pay just over £100 - although mine is classed as a double garden the average on the site is still £75. I didn't think this was too bad as its only £2 a week, this includes a tap between every 10 plots.
Seeing that I could be paying as little as 16 quid is heart breaking - think of all the seeds I could buy with the difference never mind seeds - after a couple years of savings I could buy a polytunnel (the mrs wont let me at the moment - but i'm not going to give up asking).

[mellowmick]

Hi Comfr,
If you go over to 'Off Topic' and scroll down a bit, you'll come to 'Lottie Rent Update' thread, which loads of people have posted on, giving their rents etc. Having read your post, I'd sit down before you read it. :|

[Comfry_Kid]

Thanks for that Mick - My allotment plot costs £102.10 pa - this is for 350 Square Metres the cheapest on the 96 site is £51.70 for 0 - 100 Square Metres. I am not going to think about it any more - the  council are greedy swines

[rugbymad40]

Sorry to do this to you Bud, but I have a plot of roughly 300 sq mtrs and I only pay £4.75 per annum.  You are however asked/expected to join the horticultural Society as well at a cost of £3.00, so I suppose the rental is nearly £8.00

membership to the society does come with the benefit of 10% off at any local garden centre.

What council could inflict such high charges on plot holders?  I trust that the taps on the plot are gold and the soil highly fertile.

Regards Rugbymad40

[noshed]

Are you sure you're not paying for the whole site? Ours is only about £20 a year and that's in London! And we get free manure and old wheely-bins for water butts.

[Jake]

Ours is £24. We get free muck and water taps.

[GrannieAnnie]

Well if I remember rightly, Nitiram pays £88 a year up in Hull or Grimsby way, but its still too much isn't it?

My Dad used to pay 10 bob a year for his!!!!  50p for you youngsters!!!

[growmore]

Comfry-kid,
They must have seen you coming.    I live in Bournemouth - not the cheapest town in the country - and I pay just over 13 quid including membership of the national association. Mind you it is run by an association and the whole site is leased from the Council. The association have a shop and it loads cheaper than even the cheapest garden centre. The Council are even going to upgrade all of the paths this year.

Good luck with your plot

[growmore]

Comfry-kid,
They must have seen you coming.    I live in Bournemouth - not the cheapest town in the country - and I pay just over 13 quid including membership of the national association. Mind you it is run by an association and the whole site is leased from the Council. The association have a shop and it loads cheaper than even the cheapest garden centre. The Council are even going to upgrade all of the paths this year.

Good luck with your plot

[mrsparsnip]

oh my god!  I pay 5 quid for a double plot (roughly 8 X 40 meters).  we have no running water or free stuff other then fresh air!

[darucy]

Are lottie is £90 pa. & I'm not sure if there is even any water, If there is i've not found it yet. :?

[Jenny]

Mine costs about £30 but I ask my Mum and Dad to gift it to me as a birthday or Christmas present every year!
Apparently it is a 'special' site!
We have water filling troughs (you are not supposed to use hose pipes), a gated and locked entrance, a hut with loos (if someone there has the key)and a kitchen and there is the allotment society if you join at a few quid a year, which offers a shop and some locked containers for storage of tools.
Not bad...

[kiowa]

Hi comfrey,
the cost of ours is £30 per year,( including water) ,but different sizes of allotments so various prices,...ours is 60ft x 40ft,
the only thing that is free beside us is if you salvage something out of skip at allotments .(ha-ha)......also we can only rebuild a shed /greenhouse on the foundations they are already on .