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Invoice arrived at the weekend, it's gone up to £52 a year. Massive price hike. (Was only thirty something last year.) Phoned the council department and the bloke sounded as cheesed off as me, obviously dealing with a lot of complaints, all concessions cancelled too, this is going to put many people off, perhaps that's the point.

Annoyed.

Still not bad though is it - a quid a week for enough space to feed a family?

Rates seem to vary wildly accross the country depending on land value and the facilites at the site. Councils are also under pressure to break even on allotments as with other services and can no longer subsidise the cost of running them, so prices are generally on the up I'm afraid.

Still cheaper than the gym and hopefully you can have a chat and a bit of fun with the other plotholders!

That is a huge rise, mines just gone up to £15 p/a for a single plot.
Hope you will you be able to carry on.

Ours is around £90/year (its a big plot), but some people pay that for a couple of months tv, I know what I'd rather have.

grahamhobbs wrote:Ours is around £90/year (its a big plot), but some people pay that for a couple of months tv, I know what I'd rather have.

Me too!

We've just got a raised bed (23 ft long by 4 ft wide, and 2.5 ft high) at the community garden, and that's £52.00 a year, so don't feel too hard done by.

I'm not wanting to sound mean here, but I'd been on the allotment list up here for 6 years, and I'm still nowhere near the front of the list - hundreds of thousands of people are in the same situation, so just be thankful you've got one at all!

Mind you, we do get the use of the polytunnels and potting shed / subsidised shop / toilet / tea and coffee facilities for that too. Ours isn't a council thing, though, it's a community project mostly funded by the Climate Challenge Fund, but we do have to charge so much to cover our insurance as we need to cover volunteers for the garden as well as just the 'structures', IYSWIM.

As another poster said, that's only £1.00 a week for a wonderful resource that so many people would be delighted to pay double for, be thankful! All the councils are struggling at the moment, it's understandable that they need recoup money from somewhere. Your overall savings from growing your own instead of buying it still far outweigh the price increase.

Mine seems to have been quite cheap, 42 quid for the rent, then 50 to keep the shed and the greenhouse that belonged to the last person. Still works out at less than £2 a week to have it.

I pay about £25 per hear for a half plot. Its pretty bog though.
I have a friend in South Wales who pays something like £14 per year!!

we have 2 allotments 10 rod about 80ft by 25 ft thats £28 incl water
and another 92 sq yards £7.60 plus pro rata water rates

I have 1/4 plot (15.5m x 9m) which is £2.50 a year. I'm happy, and it's only 2 minute walk away.

i think allotments are a good deal i dont smoke or drink but if a person smoked 20 fags a week thats got to be nr a fiver so thats 260 and say some one drank two beers or a bottle of wine a week thats say four quid thats 228 or say someone spent a fiver a week on the gees gees thats 260 and your have nothing to show for it esp the top 2 also if you look at broad beans i have 120 plants say they yield 2lb per plant thats 240lb of beans incl pods in the shops say there a quid a pound thats 240 quid thats one item which has paid for your allotment seeds and maybe some barbeques too so you can see its good vlaue i thinkso too.

We had a very large plot in a town before we moved,and we paid £20 per year for our allotment,which was extremely cheap.Now we have moved to a house with a much bigger garden,and it was a wrench to give up the allotment,but it would be going to someone who was desparate to start growing,and I know the waiting list was a long one.

Just beento pay mine. Six English pounds. Dirt cheap!

hello ishers long time no speak,
me & my wife have just taken on 2 5m x 15 m plots rent is £2.75 a week each,
this is on farm land off the farmer not via council,
water is on site and as the bottom bit gets boggy there may be space to rent for chickens.
rent wise may seem dear but my gardens taken up with childrens stuff.

it was rotavatored 2-3 years ago and once the grass is taken off the soils nice apart from the occasional bracken root .