288 Church Road, Kessingland, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 7SB
CAM/42UH/MNR/2023/0018 · East Suffolk · decided 4 Jul 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £400 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £800 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £540 +35.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 4 Jul 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 | house, 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 first question for the Tribunal is whether it has jurisdiction to determine the application. … Neither party has provided a copy of the tenancy agreement. The Applicant says that the tenant’s copy was destroyed when the house was flooded many years ago. … For a section 13 application to be made, the tenancy must be assured. A tenancy can only be assured if it was granted on or after 15 January 1989. According to the Applicant, the tenancy began in August 1994. This is undisputed by the Respondent. … Whilst the duration does not wholly correspond with the commencement date given by the Applicant, it is thereabouts. The Applicant would be in the best position to know when her occupation began. In all likelihood the tenancy began after the relevant date in 1989. … There is a tenancy of a dwellinghouse, which has been let 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 and the application is made in respect of an assured tenancy (which can include an assured shorthold tenancy). … The next consideration is whether the application is valid. …
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.