42 Avignon Close, Mountbatten Estate, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8YH
CAM/22UG/MNR/2025/0616 · Colchester · decided 24 Dec 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £560 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £695 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £650 +16.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 2 Mar 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 Jan 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, studio |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Although the Property did not have central heating, the storage heaters were effective and suitable for the size of the Property. The Property was well maintained. … In terms of comparable evidence, the Tribunal considered one bedroom studio flats in an approximate one mile radius of the Property and noted that these ranged from asking rents of £600 to £728 per calendar month. The Tribunal also considered the comparable evidence provided by the Respondent. … Using the comparable evidence and the Tribunal’s own expert knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal considered that the open market rent for the Property in good tenantable condition would be in the region of £650 per calendar month. … Having inspected the Property, the Tribunal did not make any adjustment for the condition of the property, having found it to be in good tenantable condition.
An extract. To keep people's names out, any sentence that might contain one is left out (marked …). The full reasons are in the original decision.
The original
Past decisions are not a prediction. Each tribunal decides on the evidence in front of it.