2,3 and 4 Woodcock Lodge, Epping Green, Hertfordshire SG13 8ND
CAM/26UD/LSC/2024/0004 · service charges · East Hertfordshire · decided 6 Feb 2025
The tribunal limited the 2019 driveway repair charge to £250 per leaseholder, found the Respondent's legal costs and garage and Flat 5 works largely not payable as service charge, allowed tree surgery and guttering costs, refused retrospective dispensation from consultation, and made a section 20C order protecting leaseholders from the landlord's costs of the proceedings.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 5 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, major works, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Total demanded | £15,564.34 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
divided up into five units: house numbers 1 and 2 and flats 3-5
- years
as to the payability of certain service charge items from 2019 through to 2024
- outcome
The cost of the driveway repairs in 2019 is limited to £250 per leaseholder.
- items reduced
The Respondent’s legal costs in 2020, 2022 and 2023 are not payable as a service charge.
- total demanded
The application stated that the total amount in dispute was £15,564.34.
- s20c
(9) The tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and paragraph 5A of Schedule 11 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 so that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the Respondents through any service or administration charge.
- s20
It was admitted that payment was sought by way of an ad hoc demand and no consultation was undertaken in breach of section 20 of the 1985 Act.
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