Flat 10, 5 St. Catherine Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 2BS
CHI/23UE/MNR/2024/0032 · Gloucester · decided 11 Apr 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £700 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £800 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £800 +14.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 6 Apr 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 22 Jan 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, 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 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. … Section 14 of Housing Act 1988 requires the Tribunal, where a notice of rent increase has been referred to the Tribunal, to determine the rent a which the Tribunal considers that the dwelling concerned might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing landlord under an assured tenancy. The Tribunal cannot comment upon or decide whether clause 3.6 of the original agreement limits the rent that can be charged. This would be a matter for the County Court to decide. … The personal circumstances of the Parties 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 Gloucester, 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 £800 per month. This new rent takes into account the faults raised by the Tenants. … The Tenants made no representation that the starting date for the new rent specified in the Landlord’s notice would cause the Tenants undue hardship. Determination 26. …
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.