PCA ensured Star retracted position on RPI rent increases
What was the issue? Tenants have the right to a Code Rent Assessment Proposal (RAP) if during the previous 5 years there has been no concluded rent assessment (and/or, in the Code’s first 5 years, a rent review). The PCA identified arbitration cases in which Star declined to provide the tenant with a RAP because, it argued, the annual Retail Price Index (RPI) rental increase during the previous 5 years was a rent assessment or rent review under the Pubs Code. The PCA was aware that Star had already argued this same point unsuccessfully in a previous arbitration. Star had the option of appea...
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