4 Clarendon Avenue, Altrincham, WA15 8HD
MAN/00BU/LSC/2024/0004 · service charges · Trafford · decided 18 Sep 2025
The tribunal found most of the disputed service charges payable, reduced the management fees for 2021/22 to 2023/24 to £400, £450 and £200, limited some earlier years' charges, and limited the landlord's recoverable proceedings costs to 95%.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Lambscare Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Oakland Residential Management Limited |
| Building | A block, 5 flats · 2 decisions about this building |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2024 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, utilities |
| 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
- flats n
the leases for each of the 5 flats at the Property
- freeholder
Respondents : Lambscare Limited
- agent
[name] of Oakland Residential Management Limited were appointed as joint
- years
Item no. 34 – external remediation works – service charge year 2024/25
- outcome
Items nos. 6, 23 and 32: management fees
- items reduced
Items nos. 6, 23 and 32: management fees
- s20c
to make orders under s20C and paragraph 5A limiting the charging as service charge or as an administration charge to 95% of the costs
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