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Flat 7 Wimbledon Close, The Downs, London, SW20 8HW

LON/00BA/LSC/2020/0057 · service charges · Merton · decided 1 Mar 2021

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The tribunal decided that the towel rails, radiators and radiator valves in the flat are the tenant's responsibility under the lease rather than recoverable through the service charge, and made a section 20C order preventing the landlord from adding its costs of the proceedings to the service charge.

OutcomePayable as demanded
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordBrickfield Properties Limited
Management companynone named
Managing agentFreshwater Property Management
BuildingOne flat, 32 flats
Service charge years in dispute2019
Items in disputerepairs and maintenance
Items disallowed or reducednone stated
Total demanded£144
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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flats n
There are 32 flats in the block where A lives.
freeholder
the Applicant’s immediate landlord is Brickfield Properties Limited (“the Respondent”)
agent
The Respondent named in the application is Freshwater Property Management
years
The application as brought related to the service charge years 2019 and
outcome
The Tribunal determines that the responsibility for repairing and maintaining the towel rails, the radiators and the radiator valves within the demised premises known as and situate at 7, Wimbledon Close, The Downs, London SW20 8HW is, upon the proper construction of the Lease dated 9 April 1980, not imposed on the landlord
total demanded
The sum in issue for 2019 was £144 pursuant to an invoice dated 20 November

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