What rent is fair?

[sjt]

I have to move my 2 hives from their present location.
The council has agreed I may site them at the back of the cemetery.
There are council allotments nearby and they want to charge me £21 a year, the land use agreement to be reviewed annually. This is the same as an allotment rent.
It seems quite a lot to me for 2 -3 beehives, no shed/storage available, not fenced off.
What does everyone else think? I suppose in honey terms it's 4 pounds of honey.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

About right I'd say - jar of honey per hive give or take a jar (the going rate for honey being £6.00 per pound)

It's a dead cert

 

[theeggman]

At least the neighbours won't complain.

Somebody had to say it!!

 

[denise washington]

that's a better deal than I got from council, rent is £65 a year and it was like a jungle 4 big trees to cut down baths and beds to move plus loads of wire and a big tractor wheel plus no fence round it and got 2 weeks to do it in so you have a good deal

 

[enrico]

I would charge them for giving them the kudos of having bees on their land!
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[bontbee]

If it's a good site in all other ways, I'd say it's worth its weight in (liquid) gold!

(How vulnerable is it, being in the dead centre of the community? )

 

[TOBY-3652]

About right I'd say - jar of honey per hive give or take a jar (the going rate for honey being £6.00 per pound)

It's a dead cert £6-00 you want to buy some for £5-00

 

[dpearce4]

one of my landlords pays me for 100 jars of honey a year and I pay him £1 rent not that he ever has asked for the £1. I think I have the best deal there lol

 

[alanf]

Allotments around here are about 3 times that. Whether it's worth it depends on lots of other factors, like can you drive up, or could anyone drive up and away with your hives?