Flat 25 Palace Court 250 Finchley Road London NW3 6DN
LON/00AG/LSC/2023/0217 · service charges · Camden · decided 19 Jan 2024
The tribunal decided that year-end surpluses must be credited back to the service charge account rather than kept in the reserve fund, that the lift maintenance charge is capped at £100 per year because consultation was not carried out, that repairs and maintenance were agreed at a reduced figure for 2022, and that the landlord cannot pass its costs of the tribunal proceedings through the service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | P C Residents (Finchley Road) Ltd |
| Management company | P C Residents (Finchley Road) Ltd |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Items in dispute | legal and professional fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| 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
twenty one flats in two blocks on the first to fifth floors
- freeholder
Respondent : [name] (Finchley Road) Ltd
- years
service charge years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022
- outcome
The tribunal determines that the surpluses for each year should be credited back to the service charge account.
- items reduced
£472 was agreed on the balance of probabilities to be a not unreasonable contribution for the repairs and maintenance for 2022.
- 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
- s20
since section 20 consultation had not been undertaken the respondent is limited to collecting £100 per year
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