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LON/00AE/LSC/2024/0691 · service charges · Brent · decided 8 Sep 2025

The tribunal found the management fees for 2016-2024 largely unreasonable and set reduced per-unit fees, and found the section 20 consultation fees payable only in part, with the landlord's costs of the proceedings barred from the service charge.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationConsultation failure found
Who appliedLandlord or management company
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentLondon Land Securities Limited
BuildingOne flat, 4 flats
Service charge years in dispute2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Items in disputelegal and professional fees, major works, management fees
Items disallowed or reducedmajor works, management fees
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payable£3,240
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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flats n
converted into 4 flats on an unknown date
agent
Managing Agent of the property
outcome
The following sums are reasonable and payable by the Respondent in respect of the management fee
items reduced
Payable by Respondent: £ 487.00
total payable
£ 3,240.00
s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, that none of the Landlord’s costs of the Tribunal proceedings may be passed to the lessees through the service charge.
s20
Payable by Respondent: £ 487.00

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