Security cameras on rented property. Tenant access or not?

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I have been transferred abroad for two years and so want to rent out my house while I am away. I have cctv cameras on the front doorbell, garage roof overlooking the driveway, and monitored security, as I am often away for several weeks at a time and my house is easily accessible from the road. There are no cameras inside the house.

I would appreciate any advice on what previous landlords have done in this situation. I plan to end the monitored security contract, but would I have to allow tenants to access the cameras? The garage (where I will store my things) will be excluded from any tenancy agreement. The property also has a designated parking space.

As a tennant I would not rent a place with cameras if I did not have sole control over them.
If you are excluding the garage from the agreement and you are concerned about theft then perhaps stick a motioned sensor camera inside the garage. But if I were you I'd remove the rest if you are not happy to hand over full control of the rest of the cameras to the new tennants.

@RuffledKestrel thank you for your response. I just wondered what other landlords have done in a similar situation. I must admit to not looking forward to having to rent out my home.

My LL doesn’t have a clue how ours work despite actually building the house and has just left us to do whatever we want with them, which is nothing, because the crime rate here is 0.

I think you should offer tenants the option to continue the monitoring at their own cost or just tell them they are a useful deterrent but you can get the service switched off if they don’t want to spend the money.

The garage is a different matter. I have viewed several houses in the last three years where the LL fills up their own garage with their own stuff or even keeps a locked room within the house full of their own stuff. It winds me up immensely. None of the houses were special enough for me to lose valuable tool and BBQ storage space over so I just walked away from those rentals. The worst one was us doing a five hour round trip to be told that in person by an agent. Complete waste of our time.

I hear you @KievLoverTwo re losing the garage space but that's non-negotiable. Downstairs there's a large laundry/drying/storage room so the EA thinks it wouldn't be a problem. I think that renting out your home comes with additional stress, compared to eg a buy to let!😓

I agree. Your extra space sounds good enough. Please just do my fellow renters a favour and make sure it is mentioned near the beginning of the advert!