Flat 1, Yule House, Redland Way, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3FX

CAM/26UG/LIS/2024/0010 · LIS · St Albans · decided 22 Aug 2025

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The tribunal found the leaseholder's initial service charge credit of £159.47 is no longer payable and should be credited back, disallowed several 2022 charges including the account management fee, bank charges and most of the window cleaning, and found the £660 administration charges not payable, with the landlord's costs excluded from the service charge and tribunal fees of £165 to be reimbursed.

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	Gateway Property Management Limited
Building	One flat, 139 flats
Service charge years in dispute	2021, 2022
Items in dispute	administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	administration charges, cleaning and grounds, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance
Total demanded	not stated as one figure
Total found payable	not stated as one figure
Fees or costs ordered	the respondent to reimburse the applicant £165 Tribunal fees

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What the decision says

flats n: totalling 139 units of accommodation
agent: Gateway Property Management Limited
years: The relevant accounting periods for the purposes of these proceedings became 1 January – 31 December 2021 and 1 January – 31 December 2022.
outcome: None of the £660 administration charges sought from the Applicant are payable as they were not validly demanded.
items reduced: None of the account management fee of £1,569 that forms part of the Estate service charge is payable by the Applicant.
s20c: the Tribunal determined that it would be just and equitable to allow the Applicant’s application under section 20C of the Landlord and
costs: The Respondent must pay to the Applicant the sum of £165 in reimbursement of Tribunal fees paid.

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