26,32,34,36,38 and 40 Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1EF
CAM/26UC/LSC/2023/0021 · service charges · Dacorum · decided 27 Aug 2024
The tribunal found that nothing was payable for 2020/21, £300 per leaseholder was payable for 2021/22 and £175 per leaseholder for 2022/23, and it made an order that the landlord's costs of the tribunal proceedings cannot be passed through the service charge.
| Outcome | Not payable |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Landlord or management company |
| Freeholder / landlord | Zas Venture Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Westcolt Surveyors |
| Building | A block, 16 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2021 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Total demanded | £107,000 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
16 flats are recorded, which is more than the number of properties at 8-40 Bridge Street.
- freeholder
Applicant : Zas Venture Limited
- agent
property manager Qalab [name] (Westcolt Surveyors) as
- years
three years from the year ending 24 March 2021 through to 24 March 2023
- outcome
(1) Nothing is payable by the Respondents in respect of the Applicant’s expenditure for the year ending 24 March 2021.
- items reduced
(2) £300 is payable by each Respondent in respect of the Applicant’s expenditure for the year ending 24 March 2022.
- s20c
(5) The tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the Respondents through any service charge.
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