13 Bramford Place, Bramford Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 5BA
CAM/42UD/MNR/2023/0048 · Ipswich · decided 4 Jul 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £650 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £715 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £715 +10.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 13 Apr 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 9 Mar 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, 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
The application should be approached in two stages: first, does the Tribunal have jurisdiction and secondly, what is the valuation. … The first stage requires consideration of the status of the applicant and the validity of the application. … The flat is a dwellinghouse, which has been let on a tenancy as a separate dwelling. The tenant is an individual. There is no suggestion that the tenant occupies the dwelling as anything other than as their only or principal home. Nor is there any suggestion that any of the statutory exceptions apply as set out in Schedule 1 to the 1988 Act. … The Tribunal is satisfied that the conditions are met within section 1 of the 1988 Act. The application is made in respect of an assured tenancy. … The question turns to whether the application is valid. Section 13(1)(a) allows a landlord to increase the rent of a statutory periodic tenancy (i.e., at the end of a fixed term). … The rent was last increased on 13 March 2022 from the initial rent of £630 to £650. By virtue of section 13(2) and (3A), the earliest date a new rent could take effect is 13 March 2023 i.e., 52 weeks after the previous rent took effect. This requirement is fulfilled as the specified date in the notice is 13 April 2023. The requisite minimum period of one month’s notice of the new rental period for a monthly periodic tenancy was given, the notice being dated 9 March 2023. …
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.