Apartments 1, 2 and 4, 4 Cannon Street, Dover, CT16 1BY
HAV/29UE/LSC/2025/0605 · service charges · Dover · decided 25 Jun 2026
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal reduced the service charges for 2022 to 2025 substantially, disallowed most cleaning, maintenance and enforcement legal costs, made section 20C and paragraph 5A orders protecting the leaseholders from the landlord's tribunal costs, and ordered the landlord to repay the £330 application fee.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | L & Y Property Corp Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent to reimburse the applicants' fees of £330.00 |
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What the decision says
- freeholder
Respondent : L & Y Property Corp Limited
- years
application for determination of liability to pay and reasonableness of service charges for the years 2022 and 2023 and of estimated service charges for the years 2024 and 2025
- outcome
The Tribunal determines that each of the Applicants are liable to pay the sum of £602.86 in respect of 2022.
- items reduced
We disallowed the Legal Fees – Enforcement in full.
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the Respondent’s costs of the Tribunal proceedings may be recovered from the Applicants through the service charge.
- costs
The Tribunal orders that the Respondent shall reimburse the Applicants their fees involved in the application in the sum of £330.00.
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