SIR - No doubt everyone is aware that pensioners have lost their concessions on allotment fees as the council attempts to collect more money. That in itself is understandable, if unpalatable.

However, when I received my invoice I discovered that, for my half plot, I'm expected to pay the same as those people on full plots.

I was on the waiting list for more than 10 years and when I was eventually offered a plot it was only a half plot on the understanding that in future all vacant plots were to be split to meet high demand. That was acceptable to me at the time.

Unfortunately, the allotments unit did not stick to their word and,although other plots were split, new people have recently been allowed to take on full plots. Good luck to them but I fail to see why I and the people on the other half of my plot should both pay exactly the same fees as those people with a full plot to themselves. This cannot by any standard be fair.

I have taken up this argument with the allotments unit to no avail. Can there be any other situation in which a person would be expected to pay the same as someone getting twice as much?

Of course, the council will get twice as much from those of us on half plots when they desperately need money but if they had consistently split plots when they became available this unfairness wouldn’t have arisen. I request that the council reconsider charging people on the same site the same fees for vastly different amenities.

Yours in disgust,

Doug Firth, Thackley