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Flats 1-5, 86 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR0 5PP

LON/00AH/LSC/2021/0068 · service charges · Croydon · decided 5 Nov 2021

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The tribunal found the insurance, carpet and window cleaning, EICR, fire safety, surveyor, drone and leak investigation charges mostly payable, but disallowed the drain services and the 2021 fire risk assessment, ordered the landlord to refund £300 of fees, and made a section 20C order.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companyEagerstate Limited
Managing agentnone named
BuildingA block, 5 flats
Service charge years in dispute2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Items in disputecleaning and grounds, insurance, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund
Items disallowed or reducedrepairs and maintenance
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedthe respondent to refund £300 application fees

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flats n
converted into 5 self-contained flats
management company
Mr [name] from Eagerstate Limited, the management company
years
service charge years 2016-2021
outcome
The tribunal determines that the amount payable in respect of drain services in 2018, 2020 or 2021 are not payable.
items reduced
The tribunal determines that the amount payable in respect of drain services in 2018, 2020 or 2021 are not payable.
s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 so that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal proceedings may be passed to the lessees through any service charge.
costs
the tribunal orders the Respondent to refund £300 paid by the Applicants within 28 days of the date of this decision.

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