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Flat 3, 3 Alexandra Grove, Finchley London N12 8NU

LON/00AC/LSC/2020/0215 · service charges · Barnet · decided 14 Feb 2023

The tribunal found most service charges payable but reduced the 2019 alarm maintenance charge to £250, reduced the 2018 fire maintenance charge by £42.86, credited £361.90 on insurance, and made a s.20C order protecting the leaseholder from the landlord's legal costs.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationConsultation failure found
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentnone named
BuildingOne flat
Service charge years in dispute2015, 2019, 2020
Items in disputecleaning and grounds, insurance, other, repairs and maintenance
Items disallowed or reducedinsurance, repairs and maintenance
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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flats n
the seven registered titles in the building
years
disputed service charges for the years 2015, to 2019 and service charges for 2020
outcome
The 2019 alarm maintenance fee payable by the applicant is reduced to £250.
items reduced
The total insurance premiums are considered reasonable and payable only after the adjustment/allowance in favour of the applicant of £361.90.
s20c
The Tribunal makes the s.20c Order as set out below.
s20
the Tribunal was satisfied that a section 20 notice pursuant to the terms of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 should have been issued and had not been

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