Facts
- The council was ordered to provide an overall increased value of rent to its properties
- It applied all of the increases to one building, which was unoccupied; making rooms £18,000/week (previously £17/week), rather than increasing everyone’s rent by 55p/week
Issue
- Was this unreasonable such that the decision could be quashed
Decision
- Yes
Reasoning
- The difficult test of Wednesbury unreasonableness was satisfied
