1-69 Vista, Fratton Way, Southsea, Hampshire PO4 8FD
CHI/00MR/LSC/2024/0092 · service charges · Portsmouth · decided 19 Sep 2025
The tribunal could not order the landlord to produce accounts, found the remaining challenges were not made out, withdrew the 2019-2023 years, and ordered the landlord to pay the leaseholders' fees and bar it from recovering its tribunal costs through the service charge.
| Outcome | Other decision |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 69 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2018 |
| Items in dispute | insurance, legal and professional fees, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| 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 | respondent to reimburse application and hearing fees within 28 days |
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What the decision says
- flats n
containing one commercial unit on the ground floor and 69 residential units
- freeholder
[name] Rent GP Ltd
- years
reasonableness and payability of service charges for the years 2018,
- outcome
the present application was largely misconceived, being an application for the Tribunal to instruct the landlord to produce accounts
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and
- costs
(5) The Tribunal orders that the Respondent shall reimburse the applicants
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