3 Lower Leigh Road, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 2JP
MAN/00BL/LSC/2024/0612 · service charges · Bolton · decided 3 Mar 2026
The tribunal found the service charges for 2020 to 2024 not payable because no services were shown to have been provided to the property, and made an order preventing the landlord from recovering its costs of the case 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 | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Gateway Properties (South East) Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 5 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | legal and professional fees, management fees, other |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, management fees, other |
| Total demanded | £1,942.29 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
being one of 5 leasehold properties which form the freehold title owned by the Respondent
- freeholder
Respondent : Gateway Properties (South East) Limited
- years
service charge years 2020 to 2024
- outcome
are not payable by the Applicant.
- items reduced
are not payable by the Applicant.
- total demanded
which totalled £1,942.29
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under s 20C Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
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