Flat 5 42 Brunswick Place Hove East Sussex BN3 1NA
CHI/00ML/LSC/2022/0118 · service charges · Brighton and Hove · decided 19 May 2023
The tribunal found several 2018 to 2021 health and safety and damp-proofing charges reasonable, limited the 2021 professional fee to £114.72 because full s.20 consultation was not carried out, reduced the estimated service charges for 2018 to 2020, stopped reserve fund contributions for 2022 and 2023, and made cost protection orders for the leaseholder.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | The Baron Homes Corporation Limited |
| Management company | Baron Management Limited |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 6 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, other, reserve fund |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent may not recover its tribunal costs from the applicant by service charge or as an administration charge |
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What the decision says
- flats n
The property is a one bedroom flat within a Regency terraced building of six flats.
- freeholder
Respondent : The Baron Homes Corporation Limited
- management company
The invoice in question is actually from Baron Management Limited to the Respondent
- years
in respect of the service charge years 2017 to 2022.
- outcome
the reasonable estimated service charge payable by the Applicant for that service charge year is £1,127.81.
- items reduced
no contribution towards the reserve fund is payable by the Applicant in the 2022 and 2023 service charge years.
- s20c
The tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the Applicant as lessee through any service charge.
- s20
On balance a full consultation was not carried out.
- costs
none of the costs incurred by the Respondent in connection with these proceedings can be charged direct to the Applicant as an administration charge under the Lease.
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