Flat 4, 50 Adrienne Avenue, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 2QW
LON/00AJ/LSC/2018/0416 · service charges · Ealing · decided 11 Jul 2019
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal found the 2016/17 estimated service charges, the debt collection charges and most legal fees payable, but disallowed court fees and held that the insurance excess and plumbing repair sums are outside its jurisdiction, and refused the leaseholder's request to stop the landlord's costs being added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | Wood Trustees Limited |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2016 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, other, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | other |
| Total demanded | £1,718.12 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- management company
The Respondent is the “Maintenance Trustee” under the Lease to whom the service charges are payable.
- years
All of the service charges claimed in the county court proceedings are on-account estimated service charges for the service charge year 2016/2017.
- outcome
The Tribunal therefore determines that the sum in question is not payable by the Applicant.
- items reduced
This court fee of £115 charged in 2016 was conceded by the Respondent at the hearing.
- total demanded
The service charge claim in fact amounts to the sum of £1,718.12
- total payable
TOTAL 1,718.12
- s20c
For all those reasons we refuse to make any orders in the Applicant’s favour under section 20C and under paragraph 5A.
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