[2024] UKUT 314 (LC)

By its decision issued on 21 March 2024 the FTT declined to proceed with the application because it considered that it had no jurisdiction to do so. That was because the prescribed form had not been received until after 1 February 2024, the date from which the proposed new rent would become payable. The FTT said that the correspondence received from Ms Atesheva on 31 December and 22 January did not constitute applications in the prescribed form. Finally, it said that a copy of the landlord’s notice proposing the increase in rent had not been received until 8 February, which once again was after the date of the proposed increase.

Having reached the conclusion that it had no jurisdiction to consider the application, the FTT made an order striking it out under rule 9(2) of the Tribunal Procedure (First-Tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013.