[2024] UKUT 41 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-530

AN APPEAL FROM THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT REF: LON/0022AJ/MNR/2022/0030

Royal Courts of Justice,

London WC2A

19 February 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LANDLORD AND TENANT – RENT DETERMINATION – assured tenancy – FTT restricting rent referable to fixed service charge – reliance on own general knowledge of management charges – whether procedurally unfair – s.14, Housing Act 1988 – appeal dismissed

BETWEEN:

PEABODY TRUST

Appellant

-and-

MISS CAROLE WELSTEAD

Respondent

Flat 62 Apsley House,

Dickens Yard,

Longfield Avenue,

London W5

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President

13 February 2024

Victoria Osler, instructed by Devonshires, Solicitors, for the appellant

The respondent represented herself

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Al Rawi v Security Service [2010] 3 WLR 1069

Arrowdell Ltd v Coniston Court (North) Hove Ltd [2006] EWLands LRA/72/2005 (31 October 2006)

Middleton v Karbon Homes Ltd [2023] UKUT 206 (LC)

Zermalt Holdings SA v Nu-Life Upholstery Repairs Ltd [1985] 2 E.G.L.R. 14