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LON/00BG/LSC/2024/0271 · service charges · Tower Hamlets · decided 27 May 2025

The tribunal found the £900 leak investigation cost not payable as an administration charge but potentially recoverable as a service charge if properly demanded, the £90 late payment fee not payable, the £288 legal fees payable, and refused any order under section 20C or paragraph 5A of Schedule 11.

OutcomeOther decision
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Refused
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentJPW Real Estate
BuildingOne flat
Service charge years in dispute2020
Items in disputeadministration charges, legal and professional fees, other
Items disallowed or reducedadministration charges
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedfees of £90 to be reimbursed by a party

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agent
of the respondent’s managing agents JPW Real Estate
years
in respect of the service charge years 2020 2024
outcome
(3) The late payment fee of £90 demanded in the invoice of 16 February 2024 at page 198 of the bundle is not payable as an administration charge.
items reduced
The late payment fee of £90 demanded in the invoice of 16 February 2024 at page 198 of the bundle is not payable as an administration charge.
s20c
(4) The tribunal does not make any order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, not under Paragraph 5a of Schedule 11 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (‘CLRA 2002’).

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