APPEALING AMOUNT OF RENT UPON TAKING UP ASSURED OR SHORTHOLD TENANCY

If you consider you rent is too high at the commencement of your shorthold or assured shorthold tenancy, you can appeal to a tribunal by filling in and sending off an application for determination of rent form which you can find at http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/HMCTS/GetForm.do?court_forms_id=3095,  You will need to send it to your regional Residential Tribunal Office  You must apply within 6 weeks of moving in.

ANNEX: Addresses of Tribunal Regional Offices
	NORTHERN REGION First Floor, 5 New York Street, Manchester M1 4JB	Telephone: 0845 100 2614 or 0161 237 9491 Fax: 0161 237 3656
	This office covers the following Metropolitan districts: Barnsley, Bolton, Bradford, Bury, Calderdale,  Doncaster, Gateshead, Kirklees, Knowsley, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oldham, Rochdale, Rotherham, St. Helens, Salford, Sefton, Sheffield, Stockport, Sunderland, Tameside, Trafford, Tyneside (North & South), Wakefield, Wigan and Wirral. It also covers the following unitary authorities: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Darlington, Halton, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Northeast Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Warrington and York. It also covers the following Counties:  Cumbria, Durham, East Cheshire Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire and West Cheshire.
	MIDLAND REGION 3rd Floor, Temple Court, 35 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AF		Telephone: 0845 100 2615 or 0121 681 3084 Fax: 0121 681 3056
	This office covers the following Metropolitan districts: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. It also covers the following unitary authorities: Derby, Leicester, Rutland, Nottingham, Herefordshire, Telford and Wrekin and Stoke-on-Trent. It also covers the following Counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
	EASTERN REGION Unit C4, Quern House, Mill Court Great Shelford, Cambridge CB22 5LD		Telephone: 0845 100 2616 or  0122 384 1524 Fax: 0122 384 3224
	This office covers the following unitary authorities: Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, Luton, Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock. It also covers the following Counties: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Suffolk.
	SOUTHERN REGION 1st Floor, 1 Market Avenue, Chichester, PO19 1JU		Telephone: 0845 100 2617 or 0124 377 9394 Fax: 0870 7395 900
	This office covers the following unitary authorities: Bath and Northeast Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Torbay, Poole, Swindon, Medway, Brighton and Hove, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight. It also covers the following Counties: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Surrey, West Sussex and Wiltshire.
	LONDON REGION 10 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7LR		Telephone: 020 7446 7700 Fax: 020 7637 1250
	This office covers all the London boroughs.

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