66a Ilex Road, London NW10 9NU
LON/00AE/MNR/2020/0094 · Brent · decided 13 Nov 2020
old rules| Rent before the notice | £1,430 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,585.65 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £1,430 +0.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Jul 2020 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 May 2020 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | flat, 1 bedroom |
Rents per calendar month as the tribunal recorded them (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12). Read from the PDF automatically.
From the tribunal's valuation
The tribunal is not convinced that if this property were brought to the open market today, that a tenant would pay the rent now being sought by the landlord. We are not satisfied that this is a two-bedroom flat, notwithstanding the fact that the local authority is willing to pay the equivalent rent for it. … We find on balance that the local authority has other pressures in re-housing people from temporary accommodation. This cannot be classified as the open market, which is the rent that this tribunal must set. … We must determine whether a prospective tenant would use what is in effect a living room as a bedroom, and it may well be that they would, but this does not in our view, make the property a two bed. We find on balance that the property is a two-room flat (one bedroom, one living room), the dining area is not in a room contained by a door, and therefore is not, in our view, a proper dining room. It appears to be a small area created by a recess adjacent to the kitchen. … Having concluded that the property is a one-bed flat, and taking into account the comparables provided by the tenant, we considered that the rent passing was at the top of the range for a flat of this size in this area. As such, we set the rent at the current rent passing, making no determination of a rent increase. …
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.