Flat 6, Herons Court, Radlett, Herts WD7 7FA
CAM/26UE/LSC/2023/0045 · service charges · Hertsmere · decided 2 Jun 2025
The tribunal found most charges reasonable but reduced the carpet contribution to £250 for a failed consultation stage, cut redecoration and management fees, and disallowed an administration charge and a lease-reading fee, and refused the leaseholders' request to prevent landlord costs being added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Herons Court (Radlett) Management Ltd |
| Management company | Herons Court (Radlett) Management Ltd |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 12 flats · 2 decisions about this building |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | no order for reimbursement of application and hearing fees |
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What the decision says
- flats n
[name] Court consists of 1 block of 12 flats built in 2012
- freeholder
Respondent : [name] Court (Radlett) Management Ltd
- agent
Trent Park Properties are the current Managing Agents appointed by the Respondent to manage the block.
- years
The Application challenges service charge years 2020 to 2024.
- outcome
The Tribunal determines that all the costs challenged by the Applicant at the hearing were reasonably incurred and reasonable in amount, save for the following:
- items reduced
(4) Items 6 (ABC reading leases) and 33 are disallowed.
- s20c
The Tribunal declines to grant a s.20C and a paragraph 5A CLARA order in favour of the Applicants.
- s20
Stage 3, however, was not complied with, this Tribunal determines.
- costs
The Tribunal declines to make an order as to costs of the application and hearing fees in favour of the Applicants.
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