Flat 6, Southfields House, 5 Southfields Green, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 7BF
CHI/29UG/LIS/2018/0009 · LIS · Gravesham · decided 17 Jan 2019
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal reduced several service charge items for 2016/17 and 2017/18, including cleaning, car park electricity, management fees and door entry, and ordered that the landlord's costs of the tribunal proceedings cannot be added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Not stated |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Hyde Vale Ltd |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Hyde Services Ltd |
| Building | One flat, 12 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2016, 2017 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| 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
The Applicants are liable to pay service charges of 1/12th of this
- freeholder
Respondent : Hyde Vale Ltd (Landlord)
- agent
The Respondent retained its in-house management arm, Hyde Services Ltd
- years
The issues which remained at the hearing related to charges payable in respect of the 2016/17 and 2017/18 service charge years.
- items reduced
The Tribunal therefore adopts the relevant costs of £700.88 for the relevant costs of “Controlled Door Entry” in 2016/17, and £780.10 in 2017/18.
- s20c
The Tribunal therefore orders that the relevant costs incurred by the Respondent in connection with proceedings before this Tribunal should not be regarded as relevant costs in determining the amount of any service charge payable by the Applicants.
The passages each figure was read from, verbatim. People's names are replaced with [name].
The original
Later rulings on the same case (costs, section 20C, permission to appeal): 18 Feb 2019.
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