8, 9, 10, 11 and 14 Poole Close, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP21 9FG
CAM/00MX/LSC/2025/0642 · service charges · Buckinghamshire · decided 23 Dec 2025
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal found most service charges payable but reduced some items, including bulk rubbish collection, CCTV, a share of 2020/2021 cleaning, a repairs invoice, a management fee deduction of £280, and parts of 2024/2025 estimates, and allowed 50% of the landlord's tribunal costs to be excluded from the service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Metropolitan Housing Trust Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 18 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| 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, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| 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
- freeholder
Respondent : Metropolitan Housing Trust Limited
- years
service charge years 2015/2016 to 2025/2026
- outcome
All service charges demanded from the Applicants for all service charge years since 1 April 2015 are payable in full, subject to the following exceptions.
- items reduced
g. A total of £280 of the “management fee” demanded from the Applicants over the service charge years in dispute is not a relevant cost
- s20c
with 50% of the Respondent’s costs not to be considered relevant costs for the purposes of calculating the Applicants’ service charges.
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