Flat 2, 19 Charles Street, Brighton, BN2 1TG
CHI/00ML/LSC/2023/0151 · service charges · Brighton and Hove · decided 19 Jul 2024
The tribunal reduced the service charges challenged for 2018 to 2023, disallowing items such as the major external works, management fees and insurance, ordered the landlord to pay the leaseholders' tribunal fees and legal costs, and barred the landlord from recovering the costs of the proceedings through the service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Assethold Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Eagerstates Limited |
| Building | One flat, 5 flats · 3 decisions about this building |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2023 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, insurance, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | fees of £300 to be reimbursed by the respondent |
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What the decision says
- flats n
has been converted into the 5 flats leased to each of the Applicants
- freeholder
Respondent : Assethold Limited
- agent
its managing agent, Eagerstates Limited
- years
2023- £7111.10, being £1422.22 per Applicant
- outcome
The total reduction as against the 1st Applicant is £10,817.85.
- items reduced
The total reduction against each of the 2nd to 5th Applicants
- s20c
Section 20C of the 1985 Act and paragraph 5A of Schedule 11 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 respectively were granted.
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