Southwark Council Garage Rents ---

[PeckhamRose]

---- are, apparently, going up FIFTY PERCENT from April.

That means they'll be about ?18. A week.

Just so's you know.

[Loz]

Where can I get one? That's a damn sight cheaper than self-storage.

[PeckhamRose]

www.southwark.gov.uk then do a search. The council are advertising them for rent at the prices they are now, cheeky s0ds. You'll need a V5 document (the log book) of the vehicle. Or were you being cheeky too!

[Loz]

I do have a vehicle, but do you have to park it there? Frankly I could just do with the storage space.

[PeckhamRose]

Well they won't know, will they!

[Pearson]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Well they won't know, will they!

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hahaha, glass garage doors in Peckham!

GOLD ;-)

[Pearson]

Sarcasm aside. I had no idea you could rent a garage of the council!

For sure they might be increasing the rent but it still looks like a bargain given the cost of general storage these days.

Thanks for the link PeckhamRose :)

[DJKillaQueen]

Not a bargain given that the rent will now exceed the value of the motorbike I store in it, and given that most council tenants that rent garages are low waged. So effectively they will become priced out. Garages were originally intended for tenants to rent and some councils still only rent to tenants on the estate where garages are located.

[Pearson]

But even a ?24 it's still very cheap compared to market value for equivalent volume space?

And, if there is space available then it would imply that there isn't the demand for them.

There only going to get snapped up by unscrupulous developers sooner or later :(

(DJKQ - How much is the bike you store in it? sure not 1 weeks rent. I presume you mean annual rent?)

[DJKillaQueen]

Yes annual rent.

They put the rent up 20% two years ago and quite a few people stopped renting them. Most of the garages were build on estates as secure parking for cars/ vehicles owned by tenants and they often sit at the base of a block of flats. There is no option for redevelopment btw so never likely to get in the hands of developers. You still need to prove you own a vehicle to be able to rent one and I suspect the change of policy has a lot to do with Southwarks need to get revenue after the government handed it some of the largest cuts in the country.

[karter]

We are buying properties with 2 garages, one of which we will rent out so pm me if you are interested in renting. Off LL.

[LadyDeliah]

Do you think they might be putting the prices up so much so that if they remain empty, they can knock them down and then sell the land they were on to developers? It would be a good excuse to knock them down if they are not used and they are less likely to be used if they price tenants out of the market.

[PeckhamRose]

Many council garages are on estates, and take up relatively small amounts of land; certainly not big enough to build more flats on. It is also pointless to compare the price of garages (which store our vehicles which we need and use every day; and no, public transport is not an option for some folk's working lives) with storage spaces.