Do the Council even know it's there? If their contractor was simply told to change locks and all garages where tenancy was terminated that's what they did.

Well, to be honest, there are no way know..

One of the garage tenant returned his keys but no lock was changed as he left it empty I suppose.

Regarding the rent, we all feel the same. From £450 to £1500 a year. quite a hike in rent.

Now, we checked how the garage door locks. There is a gap at the top and with two flat pieces of metal, we can open the door. That without notifiying the council.

I told him to remove the car, park it in a safe road [in London, safe?] and as there is a latch on the lock, park it at the weekend in the garage

He still want to know if the council has any right to remove the car without notifying before?

We checked and there was no lease, just a direct debit for a weekly rent. But he signed a form where it asked if he removed all his goods and said yes.

I would expected the Council to write to the ex-tenants saying garages were to be re let and giving them a deadline to remove stuff or Council would do it.
I thought the same. Am I right or day dreaming, again?

Those garages have a difficult access and mine was empty for months before I heard of it. So no tow-away truck would get access to them.

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Edited by the.bloke on 07/05/2019 at 17:09

He has declared that he has removed all his property so the council is fully entitled to remove any property they find in the garage and sell it to the highest bidder without any form of warning.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the person leaving their car in a locked garage without paying any rent goes to his car one day only to find it's vanished, the council won't do it themselves they'll have a contract vehicle disposal operator, it will be assumed to be dumped.

There won't be any gentle removal methods, it will get dragged out and up onto a transporter in a matter of minutes, then off to the recycling centre.

I wonder if the rent increase is a subtle way to get the tenants to hand the keys back so the garages came be deemed unneeded & then demolished?

During the estate spruce up where I live the council demolished some of the surplus garages, they didn't check inside before the machines ripped them apart as the previous tenants had been moved out, signed the paperwork to say the garage was empty of all possessions & handed the keys back.

Exactly same thing happened round my way. Garages demolished. Plot to be sold for housing.