Flat 16 South Mill Apartments, Hebden Street, E2 8FZ
LON/00AM/MNR/2024/0342 · Hackney · decided 28 Oct 2024
old rules| Rent before the notice | £2,700 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £3,036 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £2,800 +3.7% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 10 Jun 2024 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 9 May 2024 |
| 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
First, we had to consider whether, and to what extent, the landlord’s payment of the heating/hot water and council tax at the property - and the presence of a parking garage – should be reflected in our determination. … As regards the heating/hot water and council tax, we must – pursuant to Section 14(1)(c) of The Act - make our determination on the basis of the terms of the tenancy. In this case, there is a written tenancy agreement between the parties, and the landlord conceded that it did not provide for the landlord to pay for these bills – including saying in his written submissions that they were “not stipulated in contract”. The landlord had averred that we should consider that the written tenancy agreement had been varied orally so as to include them, but the tenant didn’t agree and we were not persuaded by the landlord’s argument. The parties have entered into a written tenancy agreement, in the not too distant past, and that is the agreement they have with each other. Accordingly, we took no account of the landlord’s paying of the heating/hot water and council tax bills at the property. …
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.