Flat 3, First/Middle Floor, 16 Priory Terrace, West Hampstead, NW6 4DH
LON/00AG/LSC/2025/0683 · service charges · Camden · decided 18 Jul 2025
The tribunal found the 2023-2024 building insurance premium was payable only at £2,098 rather than the £3,968.72 charged, because the landlord could not justify the reinstatement value, and it also ordered the landlord's costs of the proceedings not to be passed to the leaseholders and the landlord to refund the £330 fees.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Stripecross Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 4 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2023 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | insurance |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent to refund the applicant's tribunal fees of £330 |
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What the decision says
- flats n
converted into 4 self-contained flats
- freeholder
Respondent : Stripecross Limited
- years
the service charge year 2023-2024
- outcome
the Tribunal determines that the sum payable in respect of the building insurance premium in the service charge year 2023-2024 is £2,098.
- items reduced
the Tribunal finds that the premium payable for 2023-24 should be no more than that being paid now (based on the Shaw & Co valuation), in the sum of £2,098 (including VAT).
- 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
- costs
the Respondent shall pay to the Applicant the Tribunal fees paid by her, in the sum of £330, within 28 days of this Decision.
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