C603 Royal Crescent Apartments, 1 Royal Crescent Rd, Southampton, SO14 3AD
HAV/00MS/LSC/2025/0768 · service charges · Southampton · decided 3 Aug 2026
The tribunal found the 2022 to 2025 service charges payable as demanded, except for any 2022 deficit or overspend claimed under a defective section 20B notice, and made orders limiting the landlord's costs of the proceedings from being charged to the service charge and as administration charges.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Swinton Street Studios LLP |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Evolve Block Management |
| Building | One flat |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | none stated |
| 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
- agent
a letter dated the 29 June 2023 from Evolve Block Management to the Applicant
- years
the service charges for the years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 are payable as demanded
- outcome
the service charges for the years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 are payable as demanded except in respect of any deficit or overspend for 2022 as identified in the letter of 29 June 2023
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an Order pursuant to section 20(c) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 that any costs incurred by the Respondent in relation to these proceedings are not to be regarded as relevant costs
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