21 Spring Place Gardens, Mirfield, WF14 0QU
MAN/00CZ/MNR/2019/0010 · Kirklees · decided 29 May 2019
old ruleshousing association / affordable rentfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £548.08 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £566.71 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £566.71 +3.4% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 1 Apr 2019 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 5 Mar 2019 |
| 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; these figures haven't been checked yet and are left out of the statistics, so compare them with the original.
From the tribunal's valuation
The Tribunal firstly considered whether it had jurisdiction to deal with the application. The tenancy must be one that falls within section 13 of the Act. … The criteria for this are: • the tenant must have exclusive occupancy of the Property; • the Property must be a dwelling house; • the dwelling house must be let as a separate property; • the tenant must be an individual; • the tenant must occupy the property as their principal home; All these conditions are met in this case. … Section 13 of the Act allows the Landlord to increase the rent in an assured periodic tenancy provided there is no binding provision under which the rent may be increased. Here, the tenancy agreement provides for the rent to be increased by the service of a notice and for the tenant to have the ability to refer the notice to the First-tier Tribunal for a determination in the event of the a dispute. Consequently, there is no binding provision to prevent the rent being increased. Section 13 (2) of the Act further provides the notice period to be given for any increase of rent, must be one month, in the case of a monthly tenancy. … The Tribunal noted that from the documents disclosed to it, the Respondent had sent a letter, dated 28th February 2019, to the Applicant advising of their intention to increase her rent on 1st April 2019. …
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.