48A and 48B Bow Road, London E3 4DH

LON/00BG/LSC/2023/0033 · service charges · Tower Hamlets · decided 8 Aug 2023

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The tribunal set service charges for 2019-2020 to 2022-2023 for the two flats at a reduced level, found nothing payable for 2020-2021, made a section 20C order, and ordered the freeholder to refund the tribunal fees.

Outcome	Reduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Order made
Section 20 consultation	Not in issue
Who applied	Leaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlord	not a company, or not stated
Management company	none named
Managing agent	none named
Building	One flat, 5 flats
Service charge years in dispute	2019, 2020
Items in dispute	administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	cleaning and grounds, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund
Total demanded	£13,868.66
Total found payable	not stated as one figure
Fees or costs ordered	the respondent to reimburse the applicant's tribunal fees of £300

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What the decision says

flats n: a purpose built block of 5 flats owned by the Applicant
years: service charges for each of its flats for the year 2019 - 2020
outcome: Actual charges for 2019 – 2020 reduced by £1549.59 to £461.96
items reduced: (c) It has reduced the repairs charges of £141.60 by £141.60 to £0.
total demanded: service charges totalling £13,868.66 (£6,934.33 per flat) for the years 2019 – 20, 2020 – 2021 and 2021- 2022
s20c: The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the lessees through any service charge
costs: the Respondent shall pay the Applicant £300 within 28 days of this Decision, in respect of the reimbursement of the tribunal fees paid by the Applicant.

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