23 Turvins Farm Cottage, Sundridge Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6HB
HAV/29UK/MNR/2026/0126 · Sevenoaks · decided 3 Jul 2026
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,200 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,650 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,600 +33.3% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 May 2026 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 13 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
As a preliminary matter, before the Tribunal could consider the rental value of the property, it decided that it must first determine whether or not it has jurisdiction. … However, the Tribunal is entitled to decide whether it is satisfied, on balance, that the legal and factual matrix forming the background to the application demonstrates that it has jurisdiction. … In the current case we considered whether the Landlord’s Notice proposing a new rent may be defective, as it does not appear to take effect at the commencement of a new period of the tenancy. … The proposed new start date of the rent (paragraph 4 of the Notice of Increase) does not correspond with the commencement date of the statutory periodic tenancy, which would have commenced the day after the fixed-term contractual tenancy came to an end. However, the new start date does correspond with the date that the rent is payable according to the preamble of the tenancy agreement, namely “due and payable in advance on the first day of each succeeding month”. … The Landlord did not respond to the Tenant’s submission on validity. … The Tribunal considered carefully the Tenant’s submission and found that the date of the start of the proposed rent in the Notice does accord with the beginning of the rent period according to the back stop date of the 1st of the month provided for in the tenancy agreement 29. …
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.