Flat 2, 17 Ailsa Road, Westcliff-on- Sea, Essex SS0 8BJ
CAM/00KF/LSC/2019/0052 · service charges · Southend-on-Sea · decided 24 Feb 2020
The tribunal found management fees of £200 per flat reasonable for each year, allowed the health and safety report costs, reduced one lobby repairs invoice to £700, allowed the gardening, cleaning and reserve charges, found service charges not payable in advance, and held that the landlord may keep a reserve fund by estoppel by convention.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Long Term Reversions (Harrowgate) Ltd |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Gateway Property Management Ltd |
| Building | One flat, 4 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | repairs and maintenance |
| 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
one of 4 flats in a converted 2 storey semi-detached house
- freeholder
Respondent : [name] ([name])
- agent
engaged a Managing Agent called Gateway Property Management Ltd
- years
the years ending September 2015 and 2020 [41]
- outcome
We allow £700 inclusive of VAT.
- items reduced
We allow £700 inclusive of VAT.
- s20c
The Tribunal declines to make any order on the express concession by the Respondent at the hearing that it will not seek to add any costs of these proceedings to the service charges.
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