Flat 14, Kipling Court, Kipling Terrace, Westward Ho, Bideford, EX39 1HY

CHI/18UK/LSC/2023/0029 · service charges · Torridge · decided 3 Jul 2023

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The leaseholder must pay the outstanding on-account service charges of £2,900 for 2020/21 and 2021/22, with one administration fee reduced from £60 to £18 inclusive of VAT, plus contractual legal costs, and a section 20C order was made.

Outcome	Payable as demanded
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Order made
Section 20 consultation	Not in issue
Who applied	Landlord or management company
Freeholder / landlord	not a company, or not stated
Management company	Kipling Court Management Company
Managing agent	Peninsula Management SW Limited
Building	One flat
Service charge years in dispute	2020, 2021
Items in dispute	administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities
Items disallowed or reduced	administration charges
Total demanded	£2,900
Total found payable	not stated as one figure
Fees or costs ordered	the respondent to pay contractual costs of £3,075.17 and court fee £205 and fixed costs £80

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What the decision says

management company: Applicant/Claimant : Kipling Court Management Company
agent: [name] of Peninsula Management SW Limited (the Managing Agent)
years: service charge years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 of £1,200 in each year
outcome: The Tribunal determines that the service charges which are outstanding for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 are payable by the Respondent.
items reduced: The Tribunal has concluded that the £60 administration fee charged by Peninsula Management Limited is excessive.
total demanded: which total £2,900.
total payable: Total 3,221.00
s20c: it is just and equitable to make an order under section 20C of the Act that the costs incurred by the landlord in connection with the costs of these proceedings before the Tribunal are not to be regarded as relevant costs
costs: I find that the Claimant is entitled to recover contractual costs of £3,075.17.

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