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33b Carbery Avenue, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH6 3LN

CHI/00HN/LSC/2020/0050 · service charges · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · decided 7 Oct 2020

The tribunal found the landlord had not shown the 2020 service charges were payable, holding that the lease allows no advance payments, managing agent fees, printing and postage, reserve fund, health and safety or insurance contributions from the leaseholder.

OutcomeNot payable
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Not applied for
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentInitiative Property Management Limited
BuildingOne flat, 3 flats
Service charge years in dispute2020
Items in disputeadministration charges, insurance, management fees, other, reserve fund
Items disallowed or reducedadministration charges, insurance, management fees, other, reserve fund
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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flats n
The property is described as the upper floor flat of a 3 floor dwelling split into 3 flats.
agent
The property is managed for him by Initiative Property Management Limited.
years
reasonableness of service charges for the year 2020
outcome
The Tribunal has determined that the landlord has not demonstrated that the charges in question are payable by the Applicant.
items reduced
On that basis, the sum claimed is not payable.

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