1 Custodian Cottages, Amesbury, Salisbury, Somerset, SP4 7DD
CHI/00HY/MNR/2024/0168 · Wiltshire · decided 14 Oct 2024
old ruleshousing association / affordable rent| Rent before the notice | £850 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,200 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,020 +20.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Aug 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 31 May 2024 |
| 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
Firstly, the Tribunal made a finding of fact that the property is a two bedroom house with two reception rooms. … Secondly, it had been disputed whether the items of disrepair were reported to the landlord. The tenant provides evidence of historic emails to various personnel, seemingly at the landlord’s representative’s agency. The Tribunal accepts the tenant’s evidence and considers that the items of disrepair were reported to the agent. … The parties seemingly now agree that the broken window pane is the responsibility of the tenant, as such, the Tribunal gives no consideration to this item. … The Tribunal assesses the rent for the property as at the date of the landlord’s Notice and on the terms of the extant tenancy. … The Tribunal disregards any improvements made by the tenant but has regard to the impact on rental value of disrepair which is not due to a failure of the tenant to comply with the terms of the tenancy. … In the first instance, the Tribunal determined what rent the landlord could reasonably be expected to obtain for the property in the open market if it were let today in the condition that is considered usual for such a market letting. … The Tribunal first turned to the tenant’s evidence of the Notice of rent increase for the adjoining property at 2 Custodian Cottages. …
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.