13 & 21 Pacific Heights, Suez Way, Saltdean, BN2 8AX
CHI/00ML/LSC/2024/0104 · service charges · Brighton and Hove · decided 21 Nov 2025
The tribunal found the 2021/22 electricity and legal charges payable, removed the 2022/23 electricity, legal and unexplained charges, limited the 2023/24 fire door levy to £250 unless dispensation is obtained, and made orders protecting the leaseholders from landlord costs and refunding their tribunal fees.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Hyde Housing Association |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 2 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Items in dispute | insurance, legal and professional fees, other, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, other, utilities |
| Total demanded | £71,748 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the first respondent to reimburse application and hearing fees totalling £330 |
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What the decision says
- freeholder
First Respondent : Hyde Housing Association
- years
for the years 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024
- outcome
the unclear or unsupported charges of £5,784 and £50,201 in respect of the 2022/2023 service charge year are not payable.
- items reduced
no amount is payable in respect of electricity (Estate) for the 2022/2023 service charge year.
- 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 Applicants as lessees through any service charge.
- s20
It is common ground that a consultation was required and that no dispensation from consultation has been obtained.
- costs
The tribunal makes an order in favour of the Applicants that the First Respondent should reimburse to the Applicants both the application
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