Flat 18 Cambray Court, Cheltenham GL50 1JX
CHI/23UB/LSC/2023/0119 · service charges · Cheltenham · decided 30 Oct 2025
The tribunal found the river wall major works construction costs reasonable but cut the professional fees, reduced the lessee's section 20B liability for an early 2021-22 period, found section 20 consultation was not complied with (dispensation being conditionally granted separately), and made orders preventing the landlord's tribunal costs being passed to the lessee.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 56 flats · 2 decisions about this building |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, major works |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
The freehold title is subject to 56 long residential leases of the flats
- years
in respect of the service charge years, 2021/22, and 2022/2023. She also sought a determination in respect of the year 2023/2024.
- outcome
the tribunal finds that some of the professional fees incurred by the respondent were not reasonably incurred or alternatively the professional work was not carried out to a reasonable standard.
- items reduced
the tribunal finds that some of the professional fees incurred by the respondent were not reasonably incurred
- s20c
The tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the lessees Applicant through any service charge.
- s20
The respondent conceded that section 20 notices were not served properly on the applicant.
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