15 Shipway Court, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 8HY
CHI/23UG/MNR/2024/0076 · Tewkesbury · decided 1 Jul 2024
old ruleshousing association / affordable rent| Rent before the notice | £667.64 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £790.18 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £800.02 +19.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Apr 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 21 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 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 parties are not relevant to this issue. CHI/21UC/MNR/2024/0029 20. … The parties should be aware that market rents are usually expressed as a figure per month. … However, the property is not let on the basis that is normally required with regard to the Tenant’s provision of white goods, curtains and carpets. … Using its experience the Tribunal decided that the theoretical open market rent should be reduced by £30 per month to reflect the Tenant’s provision of white goods and £20 per month to reflect the carpets and curtains. … 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 24. 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 £800 per month which equates to £184.62 per week. …
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.