Apartments 34 and 48 Millroyd Mill, Huddersfield Road, Brighouse, HD6 1PB
MAN/00CY/LSC/2019/0102 · service charges · Calderdale · decided 17 Jan 2021
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal limited the buildings insurance charged for 2019/20 and 2020 to £54,000 and £37,400 for the main estate, finding the excess premium was not reasonably incurred, and barred the landlord from recovering the proceedings costs from the leaseholder.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | GRIF051 Ltd |
| Management company | Millroyd Island Management Company Limited |
| Managing agent | Watson Property Management |
| Building | One flat, 136 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019, 2020 |
| Items in dispute | insurance |
| Items disallowed or reduced | insurance |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent is precluded from including the costs of the proceedings in the applicant's service charges; no further o |
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What the decision says
- flats n
converted into a total of 136 Apartments in or around 2003 and 2004
- freeholder
The Landlord as referred to in the Headlease was the freeholder, and is now GRIF051 Ltd (“GRIF051”).
- management company
The Respondent : Millroyd Island Management Company Limited
- agent
obtained by MIMCL’s managing agents Watson Property Management (“Watson”) with Allianz as the insurer.
- years
The Application concerns the sums demanded by the Respondent (“MIMCL”) for the 2019 and 2020 service charge years in respect of buildings insurance premiums
- outcome
the amount payable within the service charges for the costs of the buildings insurance in respect of Apartments 1 -129: – (a) for the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 shall be limited to £54,000
- items reduced
the excessive part of the charge was not reasonably incurred within the meaning of Section 19 of the 1985 Act and is not therefore payable.
- s20c
MIMCL be precluded from including the costs of the present proceedings within the Mrs [name] service charges or as an administration charge
- costs
(4) there be no further order for costs.
The passages each figure was read from, verbatim. People's names are replaced with [name].
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