Flat 5, 106 Braybrooke Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1TG
HAV/21UD/LSC/2025/0626 · service charges · Hastings · decided 7 Apr 2026
The tribunal found most 2021 to 2024 service charges payable, but held that the cost of replacing the applicant's front door and the access costs were not recoverable through the service charge or administration charges, and limited the landlord's litigation costs recoverable from the applicant to half.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Sussex Independent Financial Advisers Limited |
| Building | One flat, 5 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2021, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, repairs and maintenance |
| 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
converted into five flats
- agent
Sussex Independent Financial Advisers Limited acted as agent for the residents’ association.
- outcome
the cost of door replacement is irrecoverable as a service charge
- items reduced
incurred in gaining access to the flat (invoice 101) are also irrecoverable
- s20c
not more than half of the landlord’s costs of the
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