Does anyone rent a garden? (Separate from your house)

[JustWantToBeDorisAgain]

Apologies for the length just needed to get it out !Just looking for opinions and experience really...

There is a plot of land next to our house (in the ownership of the people we bought from) they had hoped to get planning permission and sell it for a significant sum. This has not happened. We have offered to buy but they have suggested a rental at a peppercorn rent.

It's a small area approx 150 Sqm and our neighbours will also be having an even smaller area too (we were asked what we would like). They have proposed an annual rent of £300 which as shocked us slightly as bigger allotments within the village are about £20 per year. I should add that the land is currently in as hocking state and there will also be maintainace of a large hedge and road side bank expected, and the path to another neighbours garden dissects our access.

Would I be unreasonable to go back and say "you're having a laugh". So as not to drip feed they are a charity, and when we had one of the dc with health problems they said if you need help.... We have told them we want to site a trampoline there which would massively help with her physio!

Arrrrrggghhh I was so excited and they obviously say me coming, so does anyone know what the going rate is for rented gardens?

I used to until about a year ago and paid a nominal rent of £30 per year to cover the cost of hedge trimming.

Thanks for the reply we thought it would be somewhere around the £50-100 mark max £150 which is why £300 has just blown us away! That's what we spend on our family holiday each year . ( no the mn norm I know!)

A commercial rent would be based on the difference between the rental value of your house with and then without the piece of land, per month/year. A peppercorn rent usually means a very small amount, but this piece of land is pretty small, so I think your smaller figure is nearer the mark. It is difficult to negotiate with a charity, though, without feeling rotten. However, if you two families don't have it, will anyone else? You might be in a reasonable position to negotiate. If they cannot get PP, would they sell? A plot of land near us was sold as garden because it could not get pp. Would this be worth a go?

Thanks Milly! We have offered to buy in the past but I think they hope planning laws will change in such a way that they can do something. They also own a considerable amount of property along the road and have no need to sell at present.

What really galls me is the that they have been paying for the upkeep for that last 9 years, so we are already saving them money!

See if you and the other family can negotiate a lower rental. You never know.......