Flat 1, 197 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7, 5EU

LON/00BK/LSC/2025/1165 · service charges · Camden · decided 18 May 2026

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The tribunal found most disputed service charge items recoverable under the lease, including legal costs, the fire alarm and external works, agreed a £47.86 electricity credit, deferred item G pending a separate dispensation decision, and made no fee reimbursement or section 20C order.

Outcome	Reduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Refused
Section 20 consultation	Not in issue
Who applied	Leaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlord	197 Queens Gate Limited
Management company	none named
Managing agent	Susan Metcalfe Property Management
Building	One flat, 6 flats
Service charge years in dispute	2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Items in dispute	legal and professional fees, major works, other, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	utilities
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

flats n: converted to 6 flats
freeholder: Respondent : 197 Queens Gate Limited
agent: Representative : [name] Property Management
years: service charge years 2020-2025
outcome: subject to the Respondent’s concession that the recoverable sum under item H is limited to £5,585.12
items reduced: shall be credited to the Applicant in respect of electricity charges
s20c: makes no order pursuant to section 20C of the 1985 Act

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