Flats G04, 220, 305, 307, 317 and 318 Avalon Court, Kent Street, Nottingham, NG1 3BW
BIR/00FY/LIS/2022/0032 · LIS · Nottingham · decided 23 Feb 2026
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal reduced several service charge items for 2017/18 to 2021/22, including capping electricity costs for a qualifying long-term agreement made without consultation, cutting management fees to 70%, and disallowing some costs, while finding the balancing charges for 2017/18 to 2019/20 not payable, and it ordered the landlord's litigation costs excluded from the service charge and awarded the leaseholders £3,000 towards their costs.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Avalon Court Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Xenia Estates Limited |
| Building | A block |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2017 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, 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 | respondent to pay the applicants £3,000.00 towards their costs under Rule 13(1)(b) |
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What the decision says
- freeholder
Respondent : Avalon Court Limited
- agent
(who was head of client services for Xenia Estates Limited)
- years
the five service charge years beginning 1 September 2017 and ending 31 August 2022
- outcome
that some costs were unreasonable, that some should have been capped and that some were not payable at all
- items reduced
The Tribunal agreed with the Applicants that the costs of these out-of-hours services should be reduced by 60%.
- s20c
Accordingly, the Tribunal orders that the costs incurred, or to be incurred by the Respondent in connection with these proceedings are not to be regarded as
- s20
the relevant contribution of each leaseholder under the agreement was limited to
- costs
the Tribunal orders the Respondent to pay to the Applicants an amount of £3,000.00 towards their costs under Rule 13 (1)(b).
The passages each figure was read from, verbatim. People's names are replaced with [name].
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