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Tenancy Tribunal case 5439511 — Tenancy dispute
Decided 22 Apr 2026 · Published 22 Apr 2026 · Application 5439511
Party names are redacted in the official published order. This page summarises the dispute only — not individual identities.
At a glance
Key facts from the published tribunal order.
Adjudicator
G Baker
Claims & awards
What this tenancy cost at tribunal — claim, category, amount, and party awarded, with reconciled net total.
No individual claim amounts were reconciled for this order. View the official Ministry of Justice PDF for full detail.
Order
- An application for suppression has been made in this case and the Tribunal orders suppression of the parties’ names and identifying details.
- The tenant is to remove the cabin from the premises by 5 pm Friday 22 May 2026.
Reasons
- Both parties attended the video hearing.
- The landlord’s application was for the removal of a cabin from the property for which the landlord had not given its consent.
- The tenant gave the following evidence: a. The premises are a two-bedroom property which she had rented for over ten years. b. At the time the tenancy started, the occupants were herself and her daughter. She now has three children living at the premises. c. Her eldest daughter is now 12 and she requires and has insisted on having a room of her own. She has tried living in the shed at the premises, living in a tent and colonising the living room. None of these have proven satisfactory. d. She explained that while the premises has two bedrooms, the second bedroom is a very small single bedroom that cannot accommodate more than one single bed. e. The tenant explained that she has applied for a transfer to a more suitable house which can accommodate her and her three children. f. If the cabin is removed then she and her three children will be squeezed into the two bedrooms and this will cause considerable hardship. g. She accepted that the landlord had not consented to the cabin at the premises and agreed to remove it.
- Because of the tenant’s co-operation and out of sympathy for her predicament, the landlord agreed that the tenant have a month to remove the cabin.
- As the parties reached agreement by consent at the hearing and there are no matters of public interest in this order, it is appropriate that the parties’ names are suppressed.