Flat 4, 2-3 Stokes Lane, Plymouth. PL1 2LW
HAV/00HG/LIS/2025/0002 · LIS · Plymouth · decided 4 Mar 2026
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal and court decided the leaseholder owes none of the service charges and administration charges claimed, because the demands were not shown to have been validly served with the required lease statements, and made a section 20C order preventing the landlord's costs of the proceedings being added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Not payable |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Landlord or management company |
| Freeholder / landlord | MB Freeholds Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Residential Management Group |
| Building | One flat, 12 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2015, 2021 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, other, reserve fund |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the applicant bears its own costs; no order for costs made |
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What the decision says
- flats n
The Tribunal were told that the building contains 12 flats.
- freeholder
Applicant/Claimant : MB Freeholds Limited.
- agent
The Applicant employs a management company, currently Residential Management Group (RMG)
- years
the claim is for the recovery of unpaid service charges between 19 February 2015 and 20 September 2021
- outcome
The Tribunal finds that the Respondent is not liable to pay the Applicant any of the service charges it has claimed.
- items reduced
the Respondent is not liable to pay the Applicant any of the service charges it has claimed.
- total demanded
Total 25,370.71
- total payable
The Claimant is not entitled to recover any of the sums claimed.
- s20c
I agree that it is just and equitable to make an order under section 20C of the Act that the costs incurred by the landlord in connection with the costs of these proceedings before the Court are not to be regarded as relevant costs
- costs
The Court makes no Order for costs.
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