10 The Hamptons, Pier Road, Gillingham, Kent ME7 1FJ
HAV/00LC/LSC/2025/0647 · service charges · Medway · decided 15 Dec 2025
The tribunal found the Applicant not liable to pay the legal costs of £705.90 and £554.12 and the late payment and solicitor referral fees, under the Building Safety Act 2022, and ordered the Respondent to refund the £337.00 fees.
| Outcome | Not payable |
|---|---|
| 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 | The Hamptons RTM Limited |
| Managing agent | AM Surveying & Block Management |
| Building | A block, 24 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2023, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, legal and professional fees |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, legal and professional fees |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent to reimburse the applicant's application and hearing fee of £337.00 |
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What the decision says
- flats n
a total of 24 units
- agent
[name] of AM Surveying & Block Management
- years
for the years March 2023 to March 2024 and March 2024 to March 2025
- outcome
The following service charge items are determined not to be payable at all:
- items reduced
a. 2023/24 [name] Costs of £705.90
- s20c
the tribunal makes an order that none of the costs incurred by the Respondent in connection with these proceedings are to be regarded as relevant costs
- costs
the Respondent shall reimburse the Applicant the application and hearing fee in the sum of £337.00
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