27 Television House, Meridian Way Southampton, SO14 0FS_CHI/00MS/LSC/2024/0100
CHI/00MS/LSC/2024/0100 · service charges · Southampton · decided 1 Apr 2025
The Tribunal found most of the service charges for 2021 to 2024 payable, reducing the grounds maintenance charge by £300 and removing late payment fees from electricity and Directors and Officers insurance, and made a section 20C order reducing the landlord's tribunal costs passed to leaseholders by 25%.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Meridian Waterside (Southampton) Management Company Limited |
| Management company | Gateway Property Management Limited |
| Managing agent | Gateway Property Management Limited |
| Building | One flat |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, insurance, utilities |
| Total demanded | £97,864.87 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- freeholder
The Respondent is the Management Company, [name] ([name]) Management Company Limited, of the Estate Known as [name]
- agent
Gateway Property Management Limited act on behalf of [name] ([name])
- years
submitted an application form for the years 2021,2022,2023 and 2024
- outcome
the Tribunal deducts £300 from the 2024 allowable costs for grounds maintenance
- items reduced
the Tribunal deducts £300 from the 2024 allowable costs for grounds maintenance
- total demanded
disputing a collective service charge of £97864.87 dated 19 June 2024
- s20c
reducing the Landlord’s costs of the Tribunal proceedings that may be passed to the lessees through any service charge by 25%
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