Allotments (LLE8)
Core Offer
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This core offer includes services that the council is legally obliged to provide. The link below provides detailed information about what is included.
Link: LLE8 - Allotments
Related FAQs
Why do charges for allotments have to increase so much?
All services have to contribute to helping the Council balance its budget. Currently there are 18 Council owned sites of which 11 are DBC managed and 7 self-managed. On the Council managed sites there are 241 plots, of which on 88 plots the tenants pay full price and on 153 plots the tenants pay concession rate, which is half price. The charge for an allotment plot from April 2016 is £80 for a full plot and £40 for a concession. The proposal in the MTFP is to remove the concession from 2017/18 altogether so all tenants pay the full price and over the following three years, further raise the charges by £40 in 2017/18 to £120, £25 in 2018/19 to £145 and finally by another £25 in 2019/20 taking the charge for an allotment plot to £170.
The increased charges are required to cover operating costs, making the service break even.
Your Say
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Core LLE8 (Allotments) My 'allotment' is not full size and is at the back of my property and was previously waste land owned by The Railway. There is no possible access to the allotment and no facilities provided to it by the council. If I decide to give the allotment up due to this unjustified rip off would receiv no income at all due to no possible access |
Core LLE8 (Allotments) Despite the huge increase, the revenue to be gained from a maximum of 241 council owned plots is insignificant in terms of the overall budget. In reality it will be even smaller than the proposals suggest because a substantial number of current allotment holders will clearly have to give up their plots in the face of the proposed prices and new allotment holders will refuse to pay the extremely high cost. It is difficult to see this as anything other than a council ploy to ensure that a great many plots are left vacant, thereby justifying them being sold off for housing development within a few years. The allotments are an easy target to make balancing the budget easier in the future. Given the health benefits derived from gardening and from eating fresh fruit and vegetables, particularly when seen in conjunction with widespread cuts to public health services, encouraging the uptake of allotments would be a much more sensible approach than deliberately making them unviable. |
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