45% INCREASE IN COUNCIL GARAGE RENT.

Somniac

Title says it all really. I am a council tenant and I rent a garage from my social landlord. The rent for my garage has gone from £14 a week to £ 20 in one jump. Is this reasonable? My rent is capped at 7% but with the garage rent rise, it now amounts to a 12% rise. I know Councils are having to claw back money from anywhere they can but this seems unreasonable to me.

theartfullodger

Can I check you are a tenant of local council for your home and rent increases for your home are capped at increase of 7% pa?

You rent garage from same council or from some other social landlord e.g. a housing association?

Is the tenancy for garage a separate document or part of the tenancy agreement for your home, please ?

Is increase reasonable - no.. but since Tory governments have been seriously reducing central government funding of councils - about 50% less - councils have a problem.

Best wishes to all.

user1977

theartfullodger said:

Is increase reasonable - no

Or possibly "yes" depending on how long since it's last increased and what the going rate is for renting garages from anybody else.

GDB2222

Somniac said:

Title says it all really. I am a council tenant and I rent a garage from my social landlord. The rent for my garage has gone from £14 a week to £ 20 in one jump. Is this reasonable? My rent is capped at 7% but with the garage rent rise, it now amounts to a 12% rise. I know Councils are having to claw back money from anywhere they can but this seems unreasonable to me.

When was the garage rent last reviewed? If it wasn't reviewed for a long time, and the new rent is about the market rate, then all you are effectively complaining about is them charging you too little for the last few years.

Keep_pedalling

If the rent on the garage has not increased for a number of years the rise is reasonable. 

GDB2222

Somniac said:

Title says it all really. I am a council tenant and I rent a garage from my social landlord. The rent for my garage has gone from £14 a week to £ 20 in one jump. Is this reasonable? My rent is capped at 7% but with the garage rent rise, it now amounts to a 12% rise. I know Councils are having to claw back money from anywhere they can but this seems unreasonable to me.

Based on your figures, you were paying around £80 per week for your house/flat. That's now going up to £85. There are lots of people who would be absolutely delighted to be paying £85. 

Mr.Generous

Somniac said:

Title says it all really. I am a council tenant and I rent a garage from my social landlord. The rent for my garage has gone from £14 a week to £ 20 in one jump. Is this reasonable? My rent is capped at 7% but with the garage rent rise, it now amounts to a 12% rise. I know Councils are having to claw back money from anywhere they can but this seems unreasonable to me.

If the garage rent rises every year then the percentage will be correct, if it hasn't risen for 5 years then it would be closer to 7% per year - when did it last go up?

HampshireH

Your garage rent and your house rent are two completely different things

They aren't in any way linked so the 12% isn't represented correctly as its different % on different amounts across 2 tenancy agreements or leases.

If it was part of your home tenancy there wouldn't be a different price.

The garage is something you choose to have.

You dont have to keep it. Notice period will likely be 1 week or 1 month.

NameUnavailable

I'm paying twice that to rent a (council) garage! It went up a lot recently too, thinking of packing it in.

BarelySentientAI

Somniac said:

HampshireH said:

Your garage rent and your house rent are two completely different things

They aren't in any way linked so the 12% isn't represented correctly as its different % on different amounts across 2 tenancy agreements or leases.

If it was part of your home tenancy there wouldn't be a different price.

The garage is something you choose to have.

You dont have to keep it. Notice period will likely be 1 week or 1 month.

Let me put it another way. For the last year, my monthly rent including the garage has been £594. Now it is £680. 

But your monthly rent doesn't include the garage, so that comparison is irrelevant.

You have a home rent that is capped at 7% rise, and a garage rent that isn't.  Adding them up isn't logical.

Bookworm105

Somniac said:

BarelySentientAI said:

Somniac said:

HampshireH said:

Your garage rent and your house rent are two completely different things

They aren't in any way linked so the 12% isn't represented correctly as its different % on different amounts across 2 tenancy agreements or leases.

If it was part of your home tenancy there wouldn't be a different price.

The garage is something you choose to have.

You dont have to keep it. Notice period will likely be 1 week or 1 month.

Let me put it another way. For the last year, my monthly rent including the garage has been £594. Now it is £680. 

But your monthly rent doesn't include the garage, so that comparison is irrelevant.

You have a home rent that is capped at 7% rise, and a garage rent that isn't.  Adding them up isn't logical.

It is if you are paying it.

no it is not logical to add them together in the context of your question 
the house is capped
the garage is not 
if you don't like the latter's increase, give up the garage.
My car insurance increased by 48% this year and is a legal requirement for me to have
you do not "need" a garage in order to be housed adequately, so it is perfectly reasonable that the council should "sweat" its assets instead of looking to the taxpayer to subsidise everything you get .