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4 The Clock Tower, Goldring Way, Napsbury Park, St Albans AL2 1GF

CAM/26UG/LIS/2019/0017 · LIS · St Albans · decided 15 Nov 2019

The tribunal found the leaseholder was due a refund of about £4,910 because the service charge percentage was wrongly calculated, and ordered the management company to repay his £100 application fee and not pass its tribunal costs to him through the service charge.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companyHurford Salvi Carr Property Management Ltd
Managing agentnone named
BuildingOne flat, 403 flats
Service charge years in dispute2011, 2012
Items in disputeother
Items disallowed or reducedother
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedthe respondent to pay the applicant £100 tribunal fees

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management company
1.Hurford Salvi Carr Property Management Ltd
years
in respect of the service charge years 2011/12 through to the current year
outcome
the tribunal determines that the Applicant is due a refund from the First Respondent of £4,910.91
items reduced
the tribunal determines that the Applicant is due a refund from the First Respondent of £4,910.91
s20c
The tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the First Respondent’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the lessees through any service charge.
costs
the First Respondent shall pay the Applicant £100 within 28 days of this Decision, in respect of the reimbursement of the tribunal fees paid by the Applicant.

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