Flat 10 St Helens, 3 – 5 The Ridge, Hastings, East Sussex. TN34 2AA
CHI/21UD/LSC/2024/0016 · service charges · Hastings · decided 17 Feb 2025
The tribunal could not determine the reasonableness of the 2022 service charges because the landlord provided no evidence of actual expenditure, but it found the leaseholder is not liable for administration charges and ordered the landlord to refund the application fee, with a section 20C order and a paragraph 5A order made in the leaseholder's favour.
| Outcome | Not payable |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Assethold Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Eagerstates Limited |
| Building | One flat |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2022 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges |
| Total demanded | £11,033.86 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent to reimburse the application fee of £100 within 14 days |
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What the decision says
- flats n
converted block of twelve flats
- freeholder
Respondent : Assethold Limited
- agent
managed by Eagerstates Limited, the managing agent
- years
In the absence of any evidence of actual expenditure by the Respondent with regard to the service charges in 2022
- outcome
The tribunal finds that the Applicant is not liable to pay any administration charges to the Respondent in 2021.
- items reduced
The tribunal finds that the Applicant is not liable to pay any administration charges to the Respondent in 2021.
- total demanded
The letter demanded payment of £11,033.86
- s20c
The Tribunal has made an order under section 20C of the Act that no costs incurred by it in connection with this application may be regarded relevant costs
- costs
The Tribunal orders the Respondent to pay the sum of £100 (the application fee) within 14 days of the date of this decision.
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