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LON/00AW/LSC/2020/0185 · service charges · Kensington and Chelsea · decided 16 Dec 2020

The tribunal found most of the proposed 2019-20 budget reasonable, but reduced it by excluding conceded rent insurance and agreeing accountancy fees at £360, and made a section 20C order and ordered the landlord to pay £150 towards the applicant's fees.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordCadogan Estates Limited
Management companynone named
Managing agentnone named
BuildingA block
Service charge years in dispute2019
Items in disputeadministration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities
Items disallowed or reducedinsurance, legal and professional fees
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedthe respondent to pay the applicant £150 towards hearing and issue fees

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freeholder
Cadogan Estates Limited
years
The service charges in dispute concern the year 2019-2020
outcome
save for minor exceptions (see Summary below) the budget proposed by the respondent for the financial year in question is considered reasonable.
items reduced
Rent insurance of £415.60 conceded by the respondent
s20c
makes an order under Section 20C to prevent the respondent from claiming their costs associated with the application and hearing through the service charges.
costs
the respondent pays the sum of £150 towards the applicant’s payment of the hearing and issuing fees

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