Flat B, 45 Philbeach Gardens, London, SW5 9EB
LON/00AW/LSC/2024/0058 · service charges · Kensington and Chelsea · decided 22 Oct 2024
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal reduced the 2023-2024 service charges challenged, finding the gardening and pest control charges not payable and cutting cleaning, fire equipment and security charges to lower amounts, and ordered the landlord to refund the £300 tribunal fees and made an order preventing its costs being added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 9 flats · 3 decisions about this building |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2023 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, other |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, other |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | respondent to refund tribunal fees of £300 |
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What the decision says
- flats n
has been converted into 9 flats
- years
service charge year 2023-2024
- outcome
this charge is not payable as a service charge
- items reduced
(ii) Gardening – [name]
- s20c
the tribunal determines that it is just and equitable in the circumstances for an order to be made under section 20C
- costs
the tribunal orders the Respondent to refund the fees totalling £300
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