Apartment 106 & 205, 7 Ownall Road, Birmingham, B34 7AH

BIR/00CN/LIS/2020/0035 · LIS · Birmingham · decided 6 Mar 2023

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The tribunal found the estate charges from LCP Securities were not payable, reduced the Block A service charges for each year, and ordered that Clarion repay the applicants' tribunal fees and that its costs cannot be added to the service charge.

Outcome	Not payable
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Order made
Section 20 consultation	Not in issue
Who applied	Leaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlord	LCP Securities Ltd
Management company	none named
Managing agent	KWB Property Management
Building	A block, 26 flats
Service charge years in dispute	2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Items in dispute	administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	cleaning and grounds, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Total demanded	not stated as one figure
Total found payable	not stated as one figure
Fees or costs ordered	the respondent to repay all application and hearing fees paid by the applicants

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What the decision says

flats n: allocating expenditure equally between all 26 units
agent: Ms [name] – as Associate Director of KWB Property Management, Clarion’s managing agent for Development
years: being 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, and 2020/21
outcome: We determine that the Estate Charges for all the years in dispute are not payable.
items reduced: Cleaning 1,799.00 643.34 We agree that the time spent on cleaning was excessive
s20c: We order that pursuant to section 20C of the Act, none of the First Respondent’s costs of this application are to be regarded as relevant costs
costs: We order Clarion to repay all fees paid to HMCTS by the Applicants in relation to this case to the Applicants who paid them.

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