13 Heathcote Street, Stone, Dartford, Kent DA2 6GT
HAV/29UD/MNR/2026/0093 · Dartford · decided 11 Jun 2026
old rulesbills included| Rent before the notice | £2,195 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,375 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £2,363 +7.7% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 May 2026 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 3 Mar 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 comparables provided by the Tenants and the Landlord. … Although that property was marketed at £2275 as the rent, the Tribunal noted that the contractual rent was in fact stated to be £2375. The reason for its marketing at an amount below the contractual rent was due to a £1200 rent incentive should a tenant move in to the property before the end of March 2026. … The Tribunal also noted that the advertised rents for comparable properties on Colemans Close supplied by the Tenants were £2375. … Other properties offered by the Tenants as comparables were older, not of comparable quality, or did not provide the same level of amenity. … The Landlord did not provide evidence of achieved rents, and the Tribunal was unable to determine whether they had the same or different levels of amenity as that occupied by the Tenants. … In relation to the properties offered by the Landlord as comparables, these appeared to be of a different specification, and/or it was unclear whether the advertised rents included any “rent incentive”, and only indicated the number of bedrooms at the property. … 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 £2375 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.