6, 10 and 12 Palmer Street, Reading, RG1 3GX
CAM/00MC/LSC/2025/0656 · service charges · Reading · decided 13 Nov 2025
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal decided that the September 2024 service charge demands were not payable in full, with only £1,192.87 payable because the underleases did not require payment of the respondent's own estimates, and it ordered that the respondent's costs cannot be charged to the leaseholders and that the respondent must reimburse the £341 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 | A block |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Items in dispute | management fees, other |
| Items disallowed or reduced | other |
| Total demanded | £3,150.65 |
| Total found payable | £1,192.87 |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent to reimburse tribunal fees of £341 |
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What the decision says
- freeholder
The freeholder of the Properties is Berkeley Homes (Western) Limited (the “Freeholder”).
- outcome
only £1,192.87 is payable
- items reduced
only £1,192.87 is payable
- total demanded
revised the sum down to £3,150.65 on 20 September 2024
- total payable
only £1,192.87 is payable
- s20c
it is just and equitable to allow the Applicants’ application under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.
- costs
The Respondent must pay to the Applicants the sum of £341 in reimbursement of Tribunal fees paid.
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