Flat 1, 24 Linden Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1DN
HAV/21UG/MNR/2025/0615 · Rother · decided 22 Apr 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £580 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,100 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £595 +2.6% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Feb 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 27 Dec 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
Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 applies. The tenant is required to keep the property in the condition at the commencement of the term, fair wear and tear excepted. … The landlord describes the property as having one reception room and two bedrooms; the tenant describes the flat as having one reception room, a small dining room and one bedroom. The Tribunal has determined the optimum layout of the property to be a two-bedroom flat, with the reception room at the front of the building. However, this layout is not ideal with the access to the bathroom/WC being from the rear bedroom and through the kitchen. … There is a garden at the rear of the building. Whereas the landlord describes the garden as private; the tenant in her application describes it as shared with Flat 2. The Tribunal noted on its inspection the garden has been divided into two parts. HAV/21UG/MNR/2025/0615 Flat 1 has the benefit of the front part immediately adjacent to the building, and Flat 2 has that to the rear. The accesses to both gardens are, in part, shared. … Accordingly, the Tribunal has concluded adjustments are required to the market rent, which are summarised and set out in its valuation below. … The tenant has made no representations that the starting date for the new rent specified in the landlord’s notice would cause her undue hardship. …
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.