1 Garden House Cottages, Plaw Hatch Lane, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 4JL
HAV/21UH/MNR/2026/0172 · Wealden · decided 3 Aug 2026
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,075 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,300 +20.9% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Jun 2026 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 3 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 considered all the information provided by the parties. … In making its determination, the Tribunal has disregarded any increase in the value of the subject Property attributable to a relevant improvement carried out by the Tenant that was outside their obligations to the Landlord: section 14(2)(b), Housing Act 1988. … The Tribunal considered that the photographs supplied by the Tenant demonstrated that there had been poor general maintenance of the property. Although there were some replacement windows, it was evident that at least one had lost its seal. The guttering and soffits were in poor condition. The kitchen units were dated. The heating units in the property were basic. … Although the Landlord has said that there had been no “procedural reporting”, the Tribunal expects that a Landlord properly should conduct at least an annual inspection rather than adopt a reactive approach to repairs and maintenance. … The Tribunal also noted that the publicly available energy performance certificate for the property rated the property as category E. … Relying on its own expertise and general knowledge of rental values in the area, the Tribunal considers that the market rent of the subject Property modernised and in good order would be in the order of £1,650 pcm. …
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.