Dickens Heath Estate, Shirley, Solihull, B90
BIR/00CT/LSC/2021/0003 · service charges · Solihull · decided 19 May 2022
figures not yet checkedThe Tribunal decided that the Estate service charge apportionment should change from the former floor-area basis to a mainly per-unit basis, with the Garden Square West houses weighted at .75 of a unit, applied to 2021 and retrospectively to 2020, and made no section 20C order.
| Outcome | Other decision |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Landlord or management company |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | Dickens Heath Management Company Limited |
| Managing agent | Centrick Property Limited |
| Building | An estate, 85 flats · 2 decisions about this building |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2020, 2021 |
| 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 | 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
- management company
Applicant : Dickens Heath Management Company Limited (“Man Co”)
- agent
replaced by Centrick Property Limited (“Centrick”), the current managing agents.
- years
the fair and reasonable percentage of the 2021 service charge (which is to be applied retrospectively to the 2020 service charge through the balancing charge)
- outcome
The Tribunal determines that the fair and reasonable percentage of the 2021 service charge
- s20c
The Tribunal makes no order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
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