62A Victoria Street, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 1EN
CHI/00LC/MNR/2020/0091 · Medway · decided 3 Feb 2021
old rules| Rent before the notice | £560 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £585 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £560 +0.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 9 Jan 2021 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 17 Nov 2020 |
| 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 first considered whether it felt able to reasonably and fairly decide this case based on the papers submitted only with no oral hearing. Having read and considered the papers it decided that it could do so. … The Tribunal is required to determine the rent at which the subject property might be reasonably expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under an assured tenancy. The personal circumstances of the Tenant are not relevant to this issue. … Having carefully considered the representations and associated correspondence from the parties and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Gillingham the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property if let today in a condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £675 per month. … However the property is not in such a condition and certain deductions should be made from this figure. Relying on its own experience the Tribunal decided that a deduction of £15 per month should be made to reflect the Tenant’s provision of curtains and floor coverings. … From the evidence provided by the Tenants the Tribunal decided that a further deduction of £100 per month should be made to reflect the condition of the property caused by the repeated floods from the flat above. … Accordingly the Tribunal decided that the new rent should be fixed at £560 per month. …
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.