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LON/00AL/LSC/2020/0111 · service charges · Greenwich · decided 12 Aug 2021

The tribunal reduced the manager's service charge items for 2019 and 2020, found insurance payable, ordered refunds to the leaseholders, and ordered the manager to repay £300 in tribunal fees.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentABC Block Management Limited
BuildingOne flat
Service charge years in dispute2019, 2020
Items in disputeadministration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other
Items disallowed or reducedlegal and professional fees, management fees, other
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedthe respondent to pay the applicants £300 in reimbursement of tribunal fees

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agent
appointing ABC as managing agent
years
challenging the service charges which the Manager had demanded for 2019 and 2020
outcome
The Tribunal has reduced the external service charge items by £6,331.50 and the internal items by £819.
items reduced
Management Fees reduced from £4,500 to £1,800, a reduction of £2,700
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.
costs
The Tribunal determines that the Respondent shall pay the Applicants £300 within 28 days of this decision, in respect of the reimbursement of the tribunal fees paid by the Applicants.

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