Apply for a Council Garage

We have paused processing applications and offering garages. You can still apply to show your interest and when we start processing our applications again, we will deal with them fairly in date order. We will only contact you once we have restarted applications and a garage is available.

How can I apply to rent a garage?

The council have secure lock up garages for rent across the Borough.

You will not be considered for a garage if:

• You are under 18 years of age
• You are not resident in North Northamptonshire
• You are in arrears of Council rent or Council Tax

Apply for a Garage

View our Garages

Browse all of our garage locations - click 'next' to view further garage results on the map or use the search function to find garages in a specific town or village.

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What happens after you've applied for a garage?

You will receive an acknowledgement letter confirming that you have been accepted onto the waiting list.  If you have any arrears or debts with North Northamptonshire Council, you will receive a letter advising that you should resubmit an application once your debt has been cleared.

You will be contacted by letter, email or telephone when a suitable garage becomes available.  It is recommended that you visit the garage site and view the garage from the outside before you accept any offer.  If no response is made to a garage offer within 14 days, you will be removed from the waiting list.

Please note:

• The waiting list for a garage is allocated in date order, with priority given to Blue Badge holders and council tenants / leaseholders
• Garages currently cost £11.35 per week for council tenants / leaseholders and £13.62 (inclusive of VAT) per week for non-tenants. Some of the larger garages may cost slightly more.
• Council tenants and non-tenants are allowed a maximum of three garages. Non-tenants pay VAT on all garages and council tenants with more than two garages must also pay VAT

Accepting your offer of a garage

If you accept a garage offer, you will be invited to come into our Customer Service Centre to sign a tenancy agreement and collect the keys.  You will need to bring in a form of ID and make an initial payment of four weeks rent by debit or credit card (cash payments are not accepted) plus arrange a future payment method (preferably by Direct Debit, although we can offer a payment card).

Conditions of renting a garage

• Payment is to be made at least one week in advance and your account kept in credit at all times.  If you do not keep up with payments, you risk losing your garage
• The garage is to be used for the storage of a car or motorcycle and no other purpose
• The garage must be kept securely locked at all times other than for access purposes and vehicles should not be parked on the garage frontage
• You must not assign or sub-let the garage to someone else
• You must notify the Council of any change of home address or contact number without delay

You are responsible for the keys. If you lose your keys it is your responsibility to replace them, this will be at your own cost. You may add additional locks to secure your garage, however these locks should remain in place and the keys handed in when the tenancy is ended.

Garages are in extremely high demand and we can't guarantee when one will become available. You will be contacted once your application has been processed and when a garage becomes available as we cannot advise how long this may take.