30 Straight Mile Court, Burnley, Lancashire BB11 3DU
MAN/00BU/MNR/2023/0014 · Burnley · decided 4 Oct 2023
old rules| Rent before the notice | £675 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £750 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £750 +11.1% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Apr 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, 3 bedrooms |
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 then went on to consider what would be the open market rent for comparable properties in the locality let in the private sector on an assured tenancy, at the date specified in the Notice. In so doing it had regard to its own general experience of rental values and knowledge of market rent levels in the locality. … The legislation makes it clear that the Tribunal is unable to account for the personal circumstances either of the landlord or the tenant. … The Applicant is to be commended for keeping the property tidy, and there was certainly no evidence of any undue wear and tear, but nor was there any suggestion or evidence of his having made any improvements which would need to be factored into the Tribunal’s determination. … The Tribunal next carefully considered the disrepairs which he specifically referred to at the inspection. Whilst not in any way trivialising them, the Tribunal did not find that they, whether considered individually or together, materially affected the present rental value of the property, or marked it out as being substantially different or worse than comparable properties now being marketed in the locality. … Consequently, the Tribunal concluded that, in this case, there was no need to adjust its open market valuation to take account of the factors identified in section 14(2). …
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.