Flat 3, 317 Barking Road, London E13 8EE
LON/00BB/LSC/2023/0244 · service charges · Newham · decided 31 Jan 2024
The tribunal varied the lease so the flat pays 12.5% instead of 25%, allowed most of the 2018 to 2023 service charge items while reducing several (including communal lighting, drains, carpets, and some accountancy and consultation fees), and limited the landlord's litigation costs to 65%.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | GH7 Investments Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 8 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, major works, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| 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
now containing 8 flats
- freeholder
Respondent : GH7 Investments Limited
- agent
managed by the same managing agent, Westcolt Surveyors
- years
The years relevant to the application under section 27A are the service charge years from 2018 to 2023.
- outcome
The Tribunal makes the determinations as set out under the various entries in the schedule contained in this decision
- items reduced
but the invoice should have been divided by four
- s20c
that 65% of the costs incurred by the Respondent in proceedings before the Tribunal are not to be taken into account
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