1 – 59 Court Place, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2QZ
HAV/29UL/LDC/2024/0626 · dispensation from consultation · Folkestone and Hythe · decided 23 Jun 2025
The Tribunal granted the landlord retrospective dispensation from the section 20 consultation requirements for the lift works, with no conditions, and ordered that none of its costs of the proceedings can be passed to leaseholders through the service charge or as administration charges.
| Outcome | Other decision |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Dispensation granted |
| Who applied | Landlord or management company |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 59 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019, 2020 |
| Items in dispute | major works |
| Items disallowed or reduced | none stated |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the applicant bears its own costs; no order for the respondents to pay the applicant's costs of the application |
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What the decision says
- flats n
made up of around 59 flats over six levels
- years
The works were completed in October 2020 following a consultation pursuant to section 20 of the 1985 with the Respondents which was finalised in June 2019.
- outcome
The Tribunal grants the application for the dispensation of all or any of the consultation requirements provided for by section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (Section 20ZA of the same Act) in relation to lift works at the Property.
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the Respondents as lessees through any service charge.
- s20
The Tribunal grants the application for the dispensation of all or any of the consultation requirements provided for by section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (Section 20ZA of the same Act) in relation to lift works at the Property.
- costs
none of the costs incurred by the Applicant in connection with these proceedings can be charged direct to the Respondents as an administration charge under the Respondents’ leases.
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