Flat 1B, 22.23 Hyde Park Place, London W2 2LP
LON/00BK/LAC/2020/0016 · administration charges · Westminster · decided 29 Mar 2021
The tribunal found the increased sinking fund contributions and the balancing charge payable, but disallowed all the administration charges claimed for legal and surveyor fees, and made a section 20C order protecting the leaseholder from the landlord's costs of the proceedings.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made (from the later costs ruling on this case, linked below) |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 11 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019, 2020 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, legal and professional fees |
| Total demanded | £27,744.20 |
| 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 block consists of 11 residential flats in all
- years
arising in service charge years 2019 and 2020
- outcome
the administration charges are not payable and as a result, the respondent cannot recover any of the administration charges in issue
- items reduced
the administration charges are not payable
- total demanded
The sums now in dispute in this application are £27,744.20.
- s20c
the tribunal determines that it is just and equitable in the circumstances for an order to be made under section 20C of the 1985 Act that 100% of the costs incurred by the applicant
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The original
Later rulings on the same case (costs, section 20C, permission to appeal): 13 Apr 2021.
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