27 Sycamore House, 5 Langdon Park, Teddington, TW11 9PE

LON/00BD/LSC/2023/0390 · service charges · Richmond upon Thames · decided 29 Aug 2024

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The tribunal allowed most of the leaseholder's service charge challenges for 2014 to 2023, reducing only the Marquis management fees by 25% and lift maintenance charges by 25%, and refused the request for a s.20C order.

Outcome	Reduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Refused
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
Service charge years in dispute	2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Items in dispute	cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	management fees, repairs and maintenance
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

years: various service charge years between the years 2014 to 2023
outcome: We allow 75% of Marquis’s fees over the period 2014-2019.
items reduced: allow a 25% deduction of all maintenance fees claimed
s20c: We do not allow the application under s.20C Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.

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The original

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