85b and 85a Framfield Road,London,CR4 2AW
LON/00BA/LSC/2024/0155 · service charges · Merton · decided 28 Oct 2024
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal reduced the insurance premiums for 2018/19 to 2023/24 as unreasonable, found the valuation, management and asbestos survey charges payable, and made an order that the landlord's costs of the tribunal proceedings cannot be added to 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 | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Praxis Block Management |
| Building | A block, 2 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, management fees, other |
| Items disallowed or reduced | insurance |
| 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
The Property was a house that was converted into two maisonettes in 2017.
- agent
Praxis Block Management were the managing agents for the Property.
- years
service charge years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, and 2021/22 and future years 2022/23 and 2023/24
- outcome
The Tribunal finds that, because the Property was covered under a block policy, the insurance premiums were higher and that this resulted in an unreasonable charge.
- items reduced
The Tribunal finds that, because the Property was covered under a block policy, the insurance premiums were higher and that this resulted in an unreasonable charge.
- 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
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