Flat 3, 19 Charles Street, Brighton, BN2 1TG
CHI/00ML/LSC/2023/0150 · service charges · Brighton and Hove · decided 19 Jul 2024
The Tribunal reduced the service charges for 2018 to 2023 for items including drains, insurance, cleaning, repairs and the major external works, which were disallowed in full, and ordered the landlord to pay the leaseholders' legal costs and tribunal fees, with an order preventing recovery of 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, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| 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 | the respondent to pay the applicants' legal costs assessed at £12,000.00 and tribunal fees of £300.00 |
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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
managing agent, Eagerstates Limited
- years
enabling the Applicants to add any challenges to service charges for 2023
- outcome
The total reduction as against the 1st Applicant is £10,817.85.
- items reduced
The Tribunal disallowed this item in full, so £225.51 total
- s20c
The Respondent may not recover any fees of the County Court proceedings as service charges or administration charges pursuant to Section 20C
- costs
assessed as £12,000.00 by 19th August 2024
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