First Floor Flat, 9 Honor Oak Park, Lewisham, London, SE23 1DX

LON/00AZ/LSC/2025/0633 · service charges · Lewisham · decided 4 Sep 2025

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The tribunal reduced most of the 2024 and 2025 service charges for this two-flat building, disallowing window cleaning, the 2025 drain, bin and repair fund charges and others, and ordered the landlord to repay the leaseholder's fees and limited the landlord's costs from being added to the service charge.

Outcome	Reduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Order made
Section 20 consultation	Not in issue
Who applied	Leaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlord	not a company, or not stated
Management company	none named
Managing agent	none named
Building	One flat · 2 decisions about this building
Service charge years in dispute	2024, 2025
Items in dispute	cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, 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	respondent to repay the applicant's hearing and application fees totalling £310

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What the decision says

flats n: The premises is a flat in a building with one other flat.
years: The service charges are challenged for the years 2024 and 2025.
outcome: We disallow the window cleaning charges for both years.
items reduced: We disallow the window cleaning charges for both years.
s20c: we allow his application under s.20C of the 1985 Act.
costs: we order the Respondent to repay his hearing and application fees

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The original

This decision replaces an earlier one for the same case: 4 Sep 2025.

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