Flat 4, Ashdown Lodge, Bathurst Road, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2NT
CHI/29UL/MNR/2020/0072 · Folkestone and Hythe · decided 28 Nov 2020
old rules| Rent before the notice | £769.15 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £807.60 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £785 +2.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 17 Oct 2020 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 15 Sep 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, 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
In the first instance and in accordance with Section 14 of the Act (see above), 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 on an Assured Tenancy in the condition that is considered usual for such an open market letting exclusive of water rates and council tax. … The flat is part of a block of purpose-built flats constructed about 50 years ago in a prime residential part of Folkestone. The town centre is about ½ mile away, whilst there are a choice of two main line railway stations within ½ mile which have fast services into London. … The evidence received was of some limited use to the Tribunal. … Some of the flats have been visited over the years and so there is knowledge of the general style and layout of the flats in Ashdown Lodge. … DEaling first with the Rightmove evidence, the description of each flat was brief. It gave no details of the full extent of the accommodation, nor the floor areas. Several flats were in poorer parts of the town not considered comparable and therefore discounted. … 14 comparables were situated close by, in the West End of the town. This is a most desirable part of Folkestone and commands higher rents than those elsewhere in the town. …
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.