1 St Dunstans Court, 113 Totteridge Road, High Wycombe HP13 6EY
CAM/11UF/LIS/2023/0001 · LIS · Buckinghamshire · decided 20 Jun 2023
The tribunal found many of the challenged service charges for 2020 to 2022 payable as demanded, but reduced several others, including gardening, cleaning and management fees, and held the landlord cannot recover its tribunal costs through the lease.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Not clear |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Lisa Real Estate Ltd |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Blue Property Management |
| Building | One flat, 7 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, management fees |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | no order for respondent to reimburse applicant's issue fee £100 and hearing fee £200; no party costs order |
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What the decision says
- flats n
has been converted to provide seven flats
- freeholder
[name] Estate Ltd has been the landlord throughout the relevant period.
- agent
Since 16.09.2020 it has been managed by Blue Property Management.
- years
The application relates to the accounting years 2020-2022 inclusive.
- outcome
In the event, whilst some of the service charges demanded have been subject to reduction by determination some have not.
- items reduced
The tribunal determines that a management charge of £1,911 equating to £273 per flat would be a reasonable management charge.
- s20c
the tribunal would make an order pursuant to s20C of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985
- costs
the tribunal does not make an order directing the respondent to re-imburse those costs.
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