28 Birch Lane High Heath Walsall WS4 1AR
Evidence considered
- No comparable evidence was considered as the application was struck out for lack of jurisdiction before any rent determination was made.
Tenant submitted evidence: no. Landlord submitted evidence: no.
Tribunal's reasoning
The tribunal found the landlord's section 13 rent increase notice invalid because the proposed start date (29 June 2024) did not fall at the beginning of a new period of the tenancy, which ran monthly from the 28th of each month (tenancy having commenced 4 October 2013). As the notice failed to meet the statutory requirement under s13(2) of the Housing Act 1988, the Tribunal held it had no jurisdiction to determine a market rent and struck out the application under Rule 9(2)(a) without making any rent determination.
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