8 Malvern Grove, Manchester M20 1HT
MAN/00BN/LSC/2025/0709 · service charges · Manchester · decided 5 May 2026
The tribunal found the service charges demanded for April 2022 to August 2024 not payable as demanded, set lower reasonable annual amounts, suspended payment until valid demands with the required statutory information are served, and ordered that the landlord's costs of these proceedings cannot be added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Not payable |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 6 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2022, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | other |
| 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
- flats n
each of Flats 1- 6, 8 Malvern Grove
- freeholder
First Respondent : [name] Properties Limited
- years
The application relates to the service charges for the period April 2022 to August 2024.
- outcome
not payable.
- items reduced
the cost in relation to fitting of the new alarm system is limited to £250 for each leaseholder.
- s20c
Pursuant to section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985,
- s20
they conceded that formal consultation did not take place.
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