20, 22 & 24 Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8AE
CHI/00HB/LSC/2020/0105 · service charges · Bristol, City of · decided 11 Dec 2022
The Tribunal found that none of the challenged service charge demands for 20, 22 and 24 Gloucester Road were payable because they applied apportionments contrary to the leases, and it also ordered that the landlord's legal costs of the case cannot be added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Not payable |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Not clear |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Adriatic Land 1 (GR3) Limited |
| Management company | Gloucester Road Residents Association |
| Managing agent | Residential Management Group |
| Building | A block, 8 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, legal and professional fees, management fees, other |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
The Application relates to the eight residential units in the Properties.
- freeholder
Respondent: [name] 1 (GR3) Limited
- agent
The property is managed for it by Residential Management Group (“RMG”).
- years
Tenant’s application for the determination of reasonableness of service charges for the years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.
- outcome
none of the service charge demands is payable.
- items reduced
The Tribunal has concluded that the overall sum properly payable for management fees in each of the 3 years in question (before the credit refund for year ending 2020) should be limited to £1,000 inclusive of VAT.
- s20c
The Tribunal allows the Applicant’s application under Section 20c of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and Paragraph 5A of Schedule 11 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, thus precluding the Respondent from recovering its cost in relation to the application
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