Flats 1, 3 & 4 Poets House, 47 Erskine Road, Sutton, SM1 3AT
LON/00BF/LSC/2025/0989 · service charges · Sutton · decided 23 Feb 2026
The tribunal held that the landlord could demand service charges despite not being the registered owner, but disallowed most of the items claimed, allowing only £1,500 for insurance and £525 for communal electricity, and ordered the landlord to refund the tribunal fees and barred it from charging its costs of the case 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 | Assethold Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Eagerstates Ltd |
| Building | A block, 3 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2023 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, 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 | the respondent to reimburse tribunal fees of £341 to the applicants |
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What the decision says
- flats n
Poets House is now a semi-detached house with five flats.
- freeholder
Respondent : Assethold Limited
- agent
Eagerstates Ltd ("Eagerstates") wrote to the tenants to inform that they had been appointed to manage the Property
- years
for the service charge years December 2023 to March 2023 and March 2023 to December 2024
- outcome
(iii) All other items are disallowed.
- items reduced
(iii) All other items are disallowed.
- s20c
The Tribunal makes orders under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and paragraph 5A of [name] 11
- costs
the Respondent shall pay the Applicants £341 within 28 days of this Decision
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