Flat 6, Kingsway, Slough, Berkshire, SL3 7RW
CAM/00MD/LSC/2025/0663 · service charges · Slough · decided 22 Dec 2025
The Tribunal found the Rentokil dry rot works and external works payable, reduced the bathroom refurbishment share to reflect betterment, disallowed the alternative accommodation charge, reduced the management fee, and ordered that the landlord's costs of the proceedings cannot be charged to the service charge, with the respondent to repay the Applicant's fees of £300.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | LaRoche Management Ltd |
| Management company | LaRoche Management Ltd |
| Managing agent | Alba Management |
| Building | One flat, 6 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2025 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Items disallowed or reduced | management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Total demanded | £6,384.75 |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent to reimburse the applicant's application fee and hearing fee totalling £300 |
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What the decision says
- flats n
converted into 6 flats over 3 levels
- freeholder
Respondent : LaRoche Management Ltd
- agent
Representative : Mr [name] of Alba Management
- years
The Applicant challenges service charges for the year ending 2025
- outcome
The Applicant’s share of the bathroom refurbishment works is reduced to 1/6 of a reasonable amount
- items reduced
We therefore disallow the Applicants proportion (£239.93);
- total demanded
On 11 April 2025 a demand for payment was made of the Applicant in the sum of £6384.75.
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an order in favour of the Applicant pursuant to s.20C Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and para 5A Schedule 11 of CLRA 2002
- costs
The Tribunal grants the Applicant’s application for reimbursement of her application fee and hearing fee in the total sum of £300
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