Oakeley, Dewsbury Road, Tingley, Wakefield, WF3 1LE
MAN/00DA/MNR/2023/0436 · Leeds · decided 12 Jan 2024
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Rent before the notice | £675 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £800 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £800 +18.5% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 9 Dec 2023 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 11 Oct 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; 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 notice of increase of rent is a valid notice. … Neither party to the case has suggested any comparable properties to the Tribunal. … This has not been challenged by the landlord because the landlord did not attend the hearing to hear that evidence be given. As such the Tribunal determines that the open market rent for this property if it were in good condition would be £800 per calendar month. … The Tribunal determines that it is wrong of the landlord to decide that the blockage of the wastewater drainage pipe is the responsibility of the tenant to repair. The problem needs further investigation to find the real reason for the blockage. This requires that the manhole for this system be found. The landlord should locate this manhole and instruct a competent engineer to investigate and clear the blockage as a permanent repair. … This property is not in the condition expected of a modern market let and the market rent must therefore be adjusted, making deductions to allow for the faults that the Tribunal determines to be such as to reduce that rent. … The Tribunal makes a deduction of £30 per calendar month due to the cracked ceramic floor tiles in the kitchen. … The Tribunal makes a deduction of £30 per calendar month due to the faulty and dripping waste pipe under the kitchen sink. …
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.