Flat 15, Filby House, Pitcher Lane, Ashford, Surrey, TW15 2EA
HAV/43UH/MNR/2026/0018 · Spelthorne · decided 25 Mar 2026
old ruleshousing association / affordable rent| Rent before the notice | £1,500 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,600 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,500 +0.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 9 Dec 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 2 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 the Tribunal has read all the contents of the bundle (the papers), it limits its discussion and considerations to those points relevant to reach its determination. … For these purposes the Tribunal is to determine the rent the property might reasonably be expected to let in the open market under an assured tenancy, which begins at the beginning of the new period specified in the notice, inter alia. The new period specified in the notice is 25 February 2026. … The tenants have informed the Tribunal that at the outset they had sought a longer-term agreement of two to three years to provide stability and go on to say the landlord’s proposed increase and the timing of it was not what they had reasonably expected. The Tribunal notes at this juncture the tenancy agreement is in a standard format and the notice given under section 13(2) of the 1988 Act is valid. … Pursuant to the tenants’ application both parties have returned their respective forms to the Tribunal. The tenants have given limited submissions on their opinion of the market rent, £1,450 per calendar month. Whereas both parties have returned their respective forms (Rents 1A and Rents 1B), each has left the box into which their evidence on which they would seek to rely on blank. …
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.