19 Scorrier Street, St Day, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5LH
CHI/00HE/MNR/2024/0084 · Cornwall · decided 5 Jun 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £435 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £570 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £562.50 +29.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 5 Jun 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 17 Feb 2024 |
| 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.
From the tribunal's valuation
The Tribunal is required to make its own findings of rental value. The subject property is a basic one-bedroom ground floor flat in an historic building in a small village. The property was let without white goods and does not have central heating, although it does have night storage heaters. Neither party has referred to specific comparables and the Tribunal has therefore had to rely on its own knowledge and experience in arriving at its decision. The Tribunal is unaware of other recent lettings in St Day and has therefore also reflected on its knowledge of Redruth, where there is an active lettings market. Having done so, it considers that the starting point in Redruth would be £625 per month. However, it finds that this requires a 5% downward adjustment for location and a 5% reduction for the absence of white goods. The total deduction is therefore £62.50 per month, leaving an adjusted market rent of £562.50 per month, which it determines as the market rent under the Act. … The Tribunal is satisfied that the tenant would suffer undue hardship if the increase was backdated to 29 March 2024. It therefore determines that the start date for the new rent will be 5 June 2024, being the date of the Tribunal’s determination.
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.