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do you know what allotment holders,i think it will be too much money soon to have an allotment which is a real shame....

Yes, it almost seems as if you are being deliberately priced off your plots. Perhaps it's a subtle plan to reclaim the land back for development, i.e. the Council waits until you've all been deliberately priced out and then concretes over it and builds ugly houses or something else so this land is then lost for ever for growing things on.

I pay £27 each year, this includes water/insurance/rent for my tunnel plus a whole £2 rent for 35 year old 10x12 shed !!!

Actually very simple.

Supply and demand.

Councils have realised that allotments are popular again, this coincides with public spending cuts.

So put up the prices until all plots are full and the waiting list is in balance with natural wastage, i.e. death/move/away/give up.



BTW, all the talk of allotments costing nothing to run is misguided. Water rates, fence maintenance, mowing all cost. Never mind set up costs,as I said in a previous thread resurrecting a dilapidated site cost £13,000 to give 45 plots of five rod each, at current rental rates that over twenty years to recoup the setup cost. See Allotment Conditions

Our £40 p.a. (see my earlier posting) does not include maintenance or anything like that, but, unfortunately, our parish council has to rent the land from our ducal landowner whose London-based solicitors charge through the nose to renegotiate the rent every five years. This cost is then passed on to the allotment holders.

Our site is on land also owned by a Lord who lives down south, it was deeded to the council for 100yrs which runs out in 2014, what will happen then we have no idea.