Renting an allotment

Apart from providing low cost food, allotments also provide valuable recreational opportunities involving healthy activity and social contacts. Allotments are significant to our green spaces and provide habitats for many forms of wildlife.

Allotments have evolved through a rich and varied history of social and economic change, the most notable being the 2nd World War where the public were encouraged to 'Dig for Victory'. The first legislative reforms date back to the Enclosures Act of 1845.

Today, the Council has a statutory requirement to provide allotments for the public.

Benefits of allotments

Taking on an allotment plot is not all hard work; it can have many advantages, providing fresh home grown vegetables, fruit and flowers for you and your family, free from artificial additives and at a fraction of that you would have expected to pay in a supermarket.

There is also the social side, meeting new friends with similar interests and enabling you to enjoy a healthy outdoor life with gentle exercise and a place to relax and unwind.

Allotments in Wolverhampton

Currently there are 1,100 plots for rent on 31 sites situated throughout Wolverhampton, so why not find out what benefits they can bring to you.

The Council encourages the self management of all allotment sites. At present nine allotment sites are self managed by allotment holders with a Site Committee who establish the setting of appropriate rent. Parks and Contracts aims to retain all well used allotment sites and to improve the less well used sites.

Costs

On sites that are not currently self managed there are two grades of sites offered to residents of Wolverhampton:

Standard - £17 per year (£11 half plot)
Improved - £27 per year (£17 half plot)

If you live outside the city of Wolverhampton, £42 per year and £27 per year. Discounts are available with a Total Leisure Card.

Improved sites have extra facilities including sheds, toilets, drives and paths.

Your local gardening centre

Some allotment sites have their own shop, where a whole range of gardening products can be purchased to improve not only your plot but your own garden too. What's even better is that you don't even need an allotment to use the shops!

Contacts

For more information or to apply of an allotment, contact:

Parks and Contracts
Wolverhampton City Council
Civic Centre
St. Peter's Square
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SJ

Phone: (01902) 551155

Email: enquiries.parks@wolverhampton.gov.uk