41 Baker Close Buckshaw Village Chorley Lancashire PR7 7B
MAN/30UN/MNR/2026/0012 · South Ribble · decided 15 Apr 2026
old rules| Rent before the notice | £645 |
|---|---|
| Rent the landlord proposed | £745 |
| Rent the tribunal decided | £695 +7.8% on the rent before |
| New rent takes effect | 30 Dec 2025 |
| Date of the landlord's notice | 26 Nov 2025 |
| 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
The Tribunal retired to deliberate. After consideration of the written and oral evidence and submissions, it reached the findings set out below. Validity of Landlord’s Notice 48. The Tribunal considered the statutory framework, as further interpreted by binding decisions of superior courts of record. … Section 13(2) of the Housing Act 1988 requires the Landlord to serve “a notice in the prescribed form”. … 4 contained in the Schedule to those Regulations. Regulation 2 also provides that:- In these Regulations any reference to a section or Schedule is a reference to a section of, or Schedule to, the Housing Act 1988 and any reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number in the Schedule to these Regulations, or to a form substantially to the same effect. (Emphasis added) 50. The Tribunal notes that the form relied upon by the Landlord in this case follows Form No.4 as prescribed. The sole issue is that the date in paragraph 3 of the completed form is left blank. … The Tribunal therefore considers that the Landlord did serve a notice in the prescribed form, by using Form No. 4 or a form substantially to the same effect. … The first requirement is that the notice must specify a minimum period after service of the notice before the proposed new rent can take effect, as identified in Section 13(3); ii. …
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.