2 Boulton Road Dagenham RM8 3DD
LON/00AB/MNR/2023/0089 · Barking and Dagenham · decided 16 Aug 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,100 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,400 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,200 +9.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 31 Mar 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 28 Feb 2023 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Indeed on 15 May 2023 she emailed the tenant: “unfortunately as you have failed to supply the landlord with suitable access to carry out works as scheduled in my email to the Landlord on the 22nd March 2023 I will be closing the case”. … However, the bathroom and kitchen were both worn and dated, there was no wash basin on the first floor, some of the radiators were rusty and the mould at the junction of the walls and roof may be due to poor insulation. … Having heard all the evidence and reviewed that given in August 2023 the Tribunal finds that the landlord was not able to carry out repairs to the house prior to, or indeed after 31 March 2023, because the tenant was not prepared to give him access to the interior of the house sufficient to complete the works. Had access been given when first requested then the works would have been completed prior to 31 March 2023. The Tribunal determines that the open market rent of the property as at 31 March 2023 is £1200 per month.
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.