1 Stannum Terrace, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 4FQ
HAV/00HE/LSC/2025/0760 · service charges · Cornwall · decided 11 Sep 2026
The tribunal reduced the fire alarm testing charges and the cleaning visit frequency to monthly, found the per-visit costs reasonable, implied a term allowing estimate deficits and surpluses to be carried forward, and made orders preventing the landlord recovering the costs of the tribunal proceedings.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Coastline Housing Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 3 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2023, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, other |
| 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
a small block of three flats
- freeholder
Respondent : Coastline Housing Limited
- years
service charge years 2023/24 and 2024/25
- outcome
The cost of testing the fire alarms should be reduced by a percentage representing monthly rather than weekly testing.
- items reduced
The number of visits is not, and should be reduced to once per month.
- 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 lessees through any service charge.
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