9A Plumstead High Street, Plumstead, London, SE18 1SA
LON/00AL/MNR/2022/0113 · Greenwich · decided 20 Sep 2022
old rules| Rent before the notice | £500 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £1,100 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £750 +50.0% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Aug 2022 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 22 Jun 2022 |
| 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 finds that the property has been held under assured tenancies since 14 March 1993. In light of section 14(2) above, the earliest date in respect of which qualifying improvements could have been carried out was 21 June 2021, being 21 years prior to the service of the current s 13 notice. However, all the claimed improvements took place from 2003 or later. The Tribunal therefore rejects the landlord’s submission that only improvements carried out under the current tenancy from 2009 could be disregarded. … Had the property been in very good condition usual for an assured shorthold tenancy the Tribunal accepts the landlords case that the rent would have been £1,150 per calendar month. However, the Tribunal must disregard tenants’ improvements. The Tribunal accepts the tenant’s submissions at to improvements carried out and their dates. It rejects the landlords submission in relation to past rents being relevant to this issue. … The Tribunal does not consider that internal redecoration is an improvement, but allows for the following: tenants white goods curtains, and floor coverings (10%), bathroom tiling and refitting toilet and sink (5%), damp proofing hallway, stripping interior doors, and replacing the front door (10%) and carrying out roof repairs (5%). …
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.