32A Belgrave Road, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP19 9HN
CAM/00MX/LSC/2025/0603 · service charges · Buckinghamshire · decided 5 Mar 2026
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal found the landlord could not recover most charges for 2019 to 2024 because demands were not sent within the 18-month limit under section 20B, leaving £398.55 payable, granted dispensation for 2021 guttering works, reduced a letter of consent fee to £75 plus VAT payable only once a letter is provided, and made a section 20C order.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Fairfield Rents Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat · 2 decisions about this building |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2002, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Items disallowed or reduced | insurance, management fees, other, 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
- freeholder
Respondent : Fairfield Rents Limited
- agent
Mr [name], Director of Praxis Block Management Limited (“PBM”), the current managing agents
- outcome
The tribunal determines that the sum of £398.55 is/was payable by the Applicant in respect of the service charges for the years ending 2019 to 2024.
- items reduced
Public liability insurance 90.96 Nil Nil
- total payable
Total payable 398.55
- s20c
The tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 that none of the Respondent’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the Applicant through any service charge.
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