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LON/00AY/LSC/2024/0738 · service charges · Lambeth · decided 12 Aug 2025

The tribunal found the council's major works charges largely reasonable and payable, but reduced the scaffolding figure and cut the management fee from 10% to 5%, with the council refunding half the application fees.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Not clear
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentnone named
BuildingA block, 12 flats
Service charge years in dispute2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Items in disputemajor works, management fees, repairs and maintenance
Items disallowed or reducedmajor works, management fees
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedrespondent to refund half the fees paid by the applicants, set off against the sum found owing

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flats n
containing flats numbered 1 to 12
years
major works in the period 2019 to 2023
outcome
the amount that is being claimed for scaffolding should be reduced from £64,266.70 to a rounded figure of £57,940
items reduced
the amount that is being claimed for scaffolding should be reduced from £64,266.70 to a rounded figure of £57,940
costs
the Council would refund half the fees paid by the Applicants

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