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16 Home Farm Close, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5PQ

CHI/43UF/LSC/2022/0012 · service charges · Reigate and Banstead · decided 6 Dec 2022

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The tribunal disallowed the insurance costs because the lease places the duty to insure on individual leaseholders, reduced the legal fees charged, and ordered that the landlord cannot recover the costs of the application through the service charge.

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 companyThe Home Farm Management Company Limited
Managing agentHES Estate Management Limited
BuildingAn estate, 56 flats
Service charge years in dispute2019, 2020, 2021
Items in disputeinsurance, legal and professional fees, reserve fund
Items disallowed or reducedinsurance, legal and professional fees
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payable£61.24
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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What the decision says

flats n
comprising 56 such maisonettes
management company
with the Management Company covenanting to carry out various
agent
Representative : HES Estate Management Limited
years
service charges for the years ending 2019 to 2021
outcome
Accordingly, the insurance costs for each year are
items reduced
Accordingly, the insurance costs for each year are
s20c
I will make an order under both s.20C and paragraph 5A

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