Size of allotments

hamster · Post: # 109897Post **hamster** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:36 pm

I'm rubbish at maths and areas and spatial awareness type things. How big are allotments generally and how many could you get on 125 or 250 square metres?

marshlander · Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:47 pm

I don't know if it's a standard size but round here they are 250 M2 (300 Yd2)

hamster · Post: # 109908Post **hamster** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:09 pm

Hmm, so only one and a half then. Probably not worth taking out a loan to buy Â£33,000 worth of agricultural land near me and renting it out as allotments then. Might take a long time to make it back...

Annpan · Post: # 109915Post **Annpan** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:27 pm

250m2 is surely unlikely to be sold as agricultural land

my garden is more than 3 times that... are you sure it isn' 250 x 125 or somat.

Still I think that renting any land out for allotments would never be worth it, unless you are a council or a charity - just not enough money in it

Post: # 109918Post **MKG** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:29 pm

Are we talking square metres or metres squared? It makes a hell of a difference. 250 metres sqared is 250 times the size of 250 square metres.

hamster · Post: # 109924Post **hamster** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:37 pm

There were two sites, one 125 square metres and one 250 square metres (wording on the website).

Bluemoon · Post: # 109981Post **Bluemoon** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:42 pm

Ours is 340 square metres and we pay about Â£40 per year so it might take you a while to make a return on your investment.

MikeM · Post: # 109982Post **MikeM** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:43 pm

is that land with planning permission then? Seems an awful lot for agri land.

EDIT: that said, our plot is 20ft by 50ft. That works out at about 110 sq meters.

hamster · Post: # 110115Post **hamster** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:37 am

I don't really know what the going rates are, but there's so little land round here anyway and 'agricultural' frequently means 'somewhere for rich people to keep horses' and it is quite central.

I found it on a property website and it didn't have planning permission but the advert said you could get x, y, z on it if you got planning. I got the urge to save it from being built on (like everything else

) but then there was something on the council website about how they were aware of some agricultural land that had been advertised as something you could build on and you weren't allowed to.... V confusing, no idea.

But, no, unsurprisingly it's not going to be a good investment.