303 Bickenhall Farm Cottage, Taunton, Somerset, TA3 6TX
HAV/40UG/MNR/2025/0623 · Somerset · decided 27 Mar 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £820 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £925 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £920 +12.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Mar 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 20 Jan 2025 |
| 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
Whereas at the commencement of the tenancy the landlord was responsible for the payment of the water charges, these are now being paid for by the tenants. … The tenants have carried out various works at the property which the Tribunal determines are the responsibility of the landlord. Similarly, the Tribunal determines the installation of a new wood-burner (as an integral part of the solid fuel central heating) in November 2022 is not an improvement, but a repair. … Accordingly, the Tribunal has concluded adjustments are required to the market rent. … Whereas as the tenants say they moved into the property as an agricultural workers’ tied cottage and now they pay for the water charges as an additional cost, they have made no representations that the proposed starting date for the new rent specified in the landlord’s notice would cause them undue hardship. … This being the date specified in the landlord’s notice proposing a new rent.
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.