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LON/00BK/LSC/2024/0196 · service charges · Westminster · decided 9 Jan 2025

The tribunal found that service charges incurred before 10 May 2021 are irrecoverable under section 20B(2) of the Act, that later charges are payable, and that the landlord's costs of the proceedings cannot be added to the service charge.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordHome Health Services Limited
Management companynone named
Managing agentSmith Waters LLP
BuildingOne flat
Service charge years in dispute2017, 2021
Items in disputeother
Items disallowed or reducedother
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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agent
[name] of [name] Waters LLP
years
in the period 7th July 2017 to 31st December 2021
outcome
The Tribunal determines that the service charges before 10 May 2021 are not payable but anything after that date is.
items reduced
The Tribunal determines that the service charges before 10 May 2021 are not payable but anything after that date is.
s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the landlord’s costs for the Tribunal proceedings may be passed to the lessees through any service charge.

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