Rent Assessment Panel Contact List
- RPTS National Helpline: 0845 600 3178
- RPTS Website
- You may also want to visit the Department for Communities and Local Government website for leaflets including the Assured and assured shorthold tenancies - a guide for landlords
The Rent Assessment Committee's role:
A landlord or tenant can object to a Rent Officer's decision by writing to them. This objection is to be received by The Rent Service, Rent Officer, within 28 days. Once received the Rent Officer will pass the request and background details to the local rent assessment committee who will look at the case again.
The Role of the the Rent Officer and the Rent Assessment Committee leaflet (.pdf) provides detailed information about this process.
Contact details for the assessment panels are available below
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London Rent Assessment Panel
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This office covers all the London boroughs. | |
Northern Rent Assessment Panel
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This office covers the following Metropolitan districts: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield. It also covers the following unitary authorities: Hartlepool, Middlesborough, Redcar and Cleveland, Darlington, Halton, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North-east Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Warrington and York. It also covers the following counties: Cheshire, Cumbria, Durham, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and North Yorkshire. |
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Midland Rent Assessment Panel
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This office covers the following metropolitan districts: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, 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. |
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Eastern Rent Assessment Panel
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This office covers the following unitary authorities: Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, Luton, Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Southend on Sea, Thurrock. It also covers the following counties: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Suffolk. | |
Southern Rent Assessment PanelResidential Property Tribunal Service |
This office covers the following unitary authorities: Bath and North-east 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. |
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Corporate Unit
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