2 Bridge Street, Heckmondwike, WF16 9JB
MAN/00CZ/MNR/2025/0695 · Kirklees · decided 10 Jun 2025
old rules| Rent before the notice | £525 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £750 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £550 +4.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 10 Jun 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 13 Jan 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (notice dated before 1 May 2026): the tribunal could also set a rent higher than the landlord's figure. |
| Property | house, 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
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: (cid:127) the tenant must have exclusive occupancy of the Property; (cid:127) the Property must be a dwelling house; (cid:127) the dwelling house must be let as a separate property; (cid:127) the tenant must be an individual; (cid:127) the tenant must occupy the property as their principal home; all these conditions are met in this case. … The following criteria must then be satisfied: (cid:127) the tenancy is a periodic tenancy that makes no provision for a rent increase; (cid:127) any rent increase is in the prescribed form; (cid:127) the rent increase must be 52 weeks after the commencement of the tenancy; (cid:127) the rent increase must also be 52 weeks after any previous increase; (cid:127) the notice period for the increase must be at least one month; (cid:127) the notice must be signed by the landlords; (cid:127) the proposed rent must be specified to take effect at the beginning of a new period of the tenancy. … The Tribunal considered the criteria to be satisfied and the Notice dated 13th January 2025 to be valid. … The Tribunal thereafter considered the appropriate market rent for the property. It noted neither party had submitted any evidence of suitable comparable properties. …
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.