222 Preston Hill, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 9UJ
LON/00AE/MNR/2019/0086 · Brent · decided 6 May 2020
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,375 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £2,500 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,790 +30.2% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Aug 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | not stated |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 5 bedrooms |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
Although the Tribunal has no jurisdiction to make a determination of the status of the tenancy, which is a matter for the Court, the Tribunal accepts the landlord’s submission, for the purpose of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction, that the tenancy is an assured shorthold tenancy. However, if the tenancy were an assured tenancy, this would not affect the rent determination by the Tribunal. … The Tribunal is required to determine the rental value of the property as at the valuation date in accordance with sections 13 and 14 of the Act but may take subsequent matters into account if they shed light on issues at that date. … The Tribunal has disregarded the personal circumstances of both parties save for the issue of undue hardship (see below). … The kitchen white goods were either non-functional or in poor condition. One bathroom suite was non-matching and the other was in an unfinished condition. There were paint marks on the carpet and externally. … The Tribunal did not accept the landlord’s submission and evidence that the tenant had breached her tenancy agreement by refusing the landlord access to carry out repairs. … Those letters did not include the makers’ addresses nor in two cases the full names of the contractors. None of those contractors gave witness statements or attended the hearing. Therefore, no weight can be given to those letters. …
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.