51 The View, Staines Road West, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, TW16 7FF
CHI/43UH/MNR/2023/0221 · Spelthorne · decided 10 Nov 2023
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £1,200 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,400 +16.7% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | The decision gives two dates: 17 Aug 2023 and 23 Sep 2023. See the original. |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 17 Aug 2023 |
| 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; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
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. CHI/43UH/MNR/2023/0221 23. The Tribunal also considered whether the notice of increase dated 17th August 2023 was valid. Whilst not including the surname of the Tenant the notice clearly identified the property and the Tenant and otherwise complied with the statutory requirements. The Tribunal decided that the Notice had effectively served its purpose and was therefore valid. … 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. … Having carefully considered the representations from the parties and associated correspondence and using its own judgement and knowledge of rental values in SunBury-on-Thames the Tribunal decided that the market rent for the subject property if let at the date specified in the notice in a condition that was usual for such an open market letting would be £1,500 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.