304 Platform South, Gates Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3FG
CAM/26UH/MRA/2026/0004 · Stevenage · decided 17 Jul 2026
| Rent before the notice | £1,282 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,675 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,550 +20.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Aug 2026 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 20 May 2026 |
| Rules | New rules (notice dated on or after 1 May 2026): the tribunal could only confirm or lower the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 2 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Validity of notice 16. CAM/26UH/MNR/2023/0183 was not determined by the Tribunal. … The Tenant contended that the Notice is invalid because the tenancy commenced on 17 November 2022 and the proposed commencement date for the increased rent, namely 1 August 2026, is incorrect. … In the Notice, the Landlord stated that the tenancy commenced on 1 December 2022. However, in the Landlord’s reply, the Landlord did not dispute the tenancy details provided by the Tenant. … The Tribunal finds that the tenancy commenced on 17 November 2022, being the commencement date specified in the written tenancy agreement provided to the Tribunal. At the date the Notice was served, the tenancy was an assured periodic tenancy within the meaning of the Housing Act 1988. … The Tribunal notes that the Notice provides more than the statutory minimum of two month's notice of the proposed rent increase. … Under the current statutory regime governing assured periodic tenancies, the tenancy periods and rent periods must coincide. Where the terms of a tenancy purport to create different tenancy and rent periods, the tenancy takes effect as a periodic tenancy in which the tenancy periods correspond with the rent periods 22. The Tribunal therefore considers the tenancy by reference to the monthly rental periods. …
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.