Room 5, 79 Saunders Street, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 1HY
CHI/00LC/MNR/2023/0171 · Medway · decided 21 Aug 2023
old rulesroom in shared housebills included| Rent before the notice | £550 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £595 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £595 +8.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 27 Jul 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 8 Jun 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | room |
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 reasonably be 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 from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in Gillingham the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property is £595 per month. … The Tenant made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenant undue hardship. Determination 20. The Tribunal therefore decided that the rent at which the subject property might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing Landlord under the terms of this assured tenancy was £595 per month. CHI/29UE/MNR/2023/0162 21. The Tribunal directed that the new rent of £595 per month should take effect from 27th July 2023, this being the date specified in the notice.
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.