1 Barton Court, Whitefield Road, Bristol BS5 7FX
CHI/00HB/LSC/2023/0053 · service charges · Bristol, City of · decided 12 Jan 2024
The tribunal found most of the 2022 service charges payable but disallowed the Property Redress Scheme fee, cleaning costs, a fire alarm logbook and pre-contract cleaning, reduced the management fee from £6,000 to £4,000 and the external maintenance charge to £176, and made a section 20C order protecting the leaseholders from the respondent's tribunal costs.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| 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 | Hawkshaw & Barlow Limited |
| Managing agent | Hawkshaw & Barlow Limited |
| Building | One flat, 10 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2022 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
The building contains ten flats completed at the end of 2021.
- freeholder
DLR (Management) Limited (described in the lease as “Management Company”) changed its name to Hawkshaw & Barlow Limited (the Respondent)
- management company
DLR (Management) Limited (described in the lease as “Management Company”) changed its name to Hawkshaw & Barlow Limited (the Respondent)
- agent
Hawkshaw & Barlow were appointed as Managing Agents in May 2022.
- outcome
The Tribunal decided that the Applicant is not liable to pay her share of the following disputed service charges for 2022.
- items reduced
The Tribunal decided that of the £6,000 management fee is unreasonable and that a reasonable fee is £4,000.
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an Order under section 20C of the Act for the benefit of the Applicant, and the other nine leaseholders of the building, that the Respondent’s costs in relation to these proceedings are not relevant costs.
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