Local residents who rent garages from Sanctuary Housing may have been shocked by a rather large increase in their bills for this year.  Following an email from a resident, I’ve spoken to Sanctuary about this – and their response is that a decision has been taken by Sanctuary corporately to raise the rents across the whole of their garage stock nation-wide to market levels. This decision seems to have been communicated very badly, if at all, to their tenants.

I’ve asked whether this rise means that Sanctuary’s target of market level rents has now been achieved, or whether there would be further significantly steep increases in future. I’ve been assured that the rise to market rents has been made in one jump, and that future rent increases should be more temperate.