The Annex, Taplins Farm, Church Lane, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, RG27 8EF
HAV/24UG/MNR/2024/0644 · Hart · decided 3 Feb 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £750 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,250 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £835 +11.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 14 Dec 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 2 Oct 2024 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | other, 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 and inspection only with no oral hearing. Having read and considered the papers it decided that it could do so. … The Tribunal found the property to be in poor condition both internally and externally, as can be seen from the photographs supplied. HAV/24UG/MNR/2024/0644 22. 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 as seen at the date of the inspection. The personal circumstances of the Parties are not relevant to this issue, nor are issues relating to historic repairs. Such a letting would be for a property in good and tenable condition with carpets, curtains and white goods supplied by the Landlord 23. … This takes into account the Landlord’s provision of services and a discount to reflect the lack of control over heating, and lack of separation from the main building. … However, the property is not in a condition that would readily command such a rent and a number of reductions in the rent need to be made. … 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 27. …
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.