9, 13, 20, 93 & 142 Victoria Mill, Houldsworth Street, Reddish, SK5 6AR
MAN/00BS/LSC/2023/0059 · service charges · Stockport · decided 22 Oct 2025
The tribunal found most of the 2019 service charges reasonable but disallowed car park costs and costs of repairs to individual apartments and the litigation costs of an appeal, reduced the management fee by 10%, and limited the landlord's recovery of its costs of the proceedings to 80%.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Houldsworth Management Company Limited |
| Management company | Houldsworth Management Company Limited |
| Managing agent | LivingCity Management |
| Building | A block |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, management fees, 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 : Houldsworth Management Company Limited
- agent
the managing agent, LivingCity Management, (“LivingCity”),
- years
the service charge year ended 31 December 2019
- outcome
The annual management fee payable by each of the Applicants has not been reasonably incurred and is reduced by 10% in each case.
- items reduced
The annual management fee payable by each of the Applicants has not been reasonably incurred and is reduced by 10% in each case.
- s20c
limiting the Respondent’s charging of any costs of these proceedings as service charge to 80% of those costs.
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