3 Pine Trees Court, Hassocks, West Sussex, BN6 8NW

CHI/45UG/LSC/2022/0009 · service charges · Mid Sussex · decided 3 Aug 2022

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The tribunal reduced several service charge items for 2020 and 2021, including cleaning, insurance, management fees, window cleaning and gutter clearance, made a section 20C order and a paragraph 5A order protecting the leaseholder from the landlord's costs of the case, and ordered the respondent to refund half the application and hearing fees.

Outcome	Reduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Order made
Section 20 consultation	Not in issue
Who applied	Leaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlord	Pine Trees Court Residents Association Freeholder Limited
Management company	Pine Trees Court Residents Association Limited
Managing agent	Hunters Managing Agents
Building	One flat, 6 flats
Service charge years in dispute	2020, 2021, 2022
Items in dispute	administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities
Total demanded	not stated as one figure
Total found payable	not stated as one figure
Fees or costs ordered	the respondent to refund the applicant 50% of the application fee and hearing fee

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What the decision says

flats n: comprising fifteen self-contained flats within two blocks
freeholder: Pine Trees Court Residents Association Freeholder Limited
management company: Pine Trees Court Residents Association Limited (“PTCRA”)
agent: Mr [name], Assistant Head of Accounts at Hunters Managing Agents
years: service charge years ending 30 June 2020 and 30 June 2021, and advance service charge payments for the year ending 30 June 2022
outcome: determinations of reasonableness in respect of disputed service charges for the year ending 30 June 2020, 30 June 2021
items reduced: Gutter and drain clearance: In the absence of any evidence to substantiate the costs incurred, the Tribunal determines the cost of £320.00 as unreasonable and not reasonably incurred.
s20c: The Tribunal makes an order under Section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, preventing the respondent from charging the costs of the proceedings to the applicant through the service charge.
costs: the respondent pays the applicant fifty percent of both the cost of the application fee and the hearing fee.

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