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Flat 1, 14 Bellevue Road, Southend-on-Sea SS2 4JF

CAM/00KF/LSC/2019/0042 · service charges · Southend-on-Sea · decided 7 Jan 2020

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The tenant's admitted ground rent, insurance and service charges were held payable with 2% interest, but the landlords' legal costs and unexplained administration charges were struck out as not recoverable under the lease.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Not applied for
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLandlord or management company
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentnone named
BuildingOne flat
Service charge years in dispute2013
Items in disputeadministration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other
Items disallowed or reducedadministration charges, legal and professional fees
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payable£6
Fees or costs orderedthe respondent to pay costs of £555 (issue fee plus fixed costs)

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What the decision says

years
service charges for the years 1st September 2013 to
outcome
Each and every such item in the schedules of arrears must therefore be struck out as irrecoverable unless there is some other lawful basis of claim.
items reduced
Each and every such item in the schedules of arrears must therefore be struck out as irrecoverable unless there is some other lawful basis of claim.
total demanded
The total for arrears and administration charges is stated to be £6 645.14.
total payable
The total sum payable, inclusive of interest and costs, is therefore £6 024.31.
costs
Costs are awarded in the sum of £555 (issue fee plus fixed costs).

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