24 Lansdowne Court, Brighton Road, Purley CR8 2BD
LON/00AH/LSC/2024/0195 · service charges · Croydon · decided 24 Jun 2025
The tribunal found the advance service charge demands and reserve fund items payable, but disallowed legal fees, company administration costs, insurance claims and transfers to the company, and made a section 20C order protecting the leaseholders from the landlord's tribunal costs.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 54 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, insurance, 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
Lansdowne Court is a block of 54 flats
- years
in respect of the service charge years 2019 to 2024
- outcome
the amount payable in respect of pre-2019 service charges is £3,021.00
- items reduced
administration fees, other management fees, sundry expenses, FTT settlement, insurance claims, postage and photocopying, legal and statutory fees, document storage, and other professional fees are not payable
- s20c
the tribunal determines that it is just and equitable in the circumstances for an order to be made under section 20C of the 1985 Act
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