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Originally Posted by MargaretR

If our council wants to pay more than just lip service to 'going green', they had better not raise allotment rents. They maintain allotment tracks, but otherwise there aren't great costs involved in providing them. Raising rents just discourages people from making the effort to cultivate.

Growing you own food is supposed to be good for the planet and provides better nutrition than the veg that is shipped long distances.

£200 per year = £2.85 per week
At that cost, people will say that it will be cheaper to buy supermarket veg.

Have Tesco complained to the council that veg sales are less than the national average in these parts?

Even 100 quid is a bit much for a piece of land, that would otherwise be lying fallow, Once it becomes allotment land, what do the council actually do, but look on it as another cash cow.
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