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Thread #117050   Message #2518920
Posted By: Bryn Pugh
18-Dec-08 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: What Would You Do With an Acre of Land?
Subject: RE: BS: What Would You Do With an Acre of Land?
In the UK you don't need planning permission for allotments -

Sections 55 (2) (e) and 336 Town and Country Planning Act 1990

I would mark out 15 standard allotments - that's ten pole allotments.

(300 square yards) each. Properly husbanded, a 10 pole plot should feed a family of four its fruit and veggie requirements for a twelvemonth.

And I would charge each allotmentier fifty quid a year. That's a quid a week.

(What do you mean, what's a pole ? It's the same as a perch, or a rod, or a pace, or a lug - the distance from the back of the plough to the nose of the ox what's pulling it, as any fule kno).