32 Robert Daniels Court, Thrifts Mead, Theydon Bois, Epping, Essex, CM16 7NE
CAM/22UH/MNR/2023/0039 · Epping Forest · decided 27 Jun 2023
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £770.08 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £864.59 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £446.33 −42.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 3 Apr 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 3 Feb 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
From the tribunal's valuation
The Tribunal has therefore taken into account all matters raised within all of these applications to ensure a uniformity of approach in the interests of fairness. … As set out above, the Tribunal is unable, as part of this hearing, to make any judgement as to whether the service charge is correct and appropriate. Notwithstanding this point, the quantum of service charge is a matter that would be taken into account by a potential incoming tenant when comparing this Property with comparable properties. … In this regard, the Tribunal notes, from the evidence provided by the tenants of flats 23, 27 and 30, that both the net rent and the current service charge is significantly higher than those incurred by tenants of any of the comparable properties provided to the Tribunal. … It would therefore be reasonable to except that an incoming Tenant would have regard to the overall liability comparative to other available options and not merely compare the rental values. … In this regard, Parsonage Court, for example, is located 2.6 miles away from the Property, has similar proximity to public transport but was constructed in 1986 and the current rent is £91.43 per week. This indicates that the proposed net rent of £113.97 per week is excessive. …
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.