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LON/00BG/LSC/2025/0650 · service charges · Tower Hamlets · decided 12 Aug 2025

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The tribunal disallowed the 2021 balcony glass repair costs and capped the 2024 communal boiler repair charge at £250 because no consultation took place, found the other challenged charges payable, and refused the leaseholders' section 20C application.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Refused
Section 20 consultationConsultation failure found
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordPoplar Harca Limited
Management companynone named
Managing agentnone named
BuildingA block, 31 flats
Service charge years in dispute2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Items in disputeadministration charges, repairs and maintenance
Items disallowed or reducedrepairs and maintenance
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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What the decision says

freeholder
The freeholder at the premises is Poplar Harca Limited
years
2021,2023, 2024 and 2025
outcome
We do not consider that the leaseholders should be liable for any of the works to the defective balcony glass and we disallow those costs.
items reduced
the replacement of the heat replacement unit cost to the Applicants should be capped at £250 as no consultation took place
s20c
we disallow their application under s.20C Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
s20
should be capped at £250 as no consultation took place

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