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Fox Street Village, 30 Fox Street, Liverpool L3 3BQ

MAN/00BY/LSC/2024/0201 · service charges · Liverpool · decided 26 Jan 2026

The Tribunal reduced the 2023 and 2024 estate service charges, disallowing electricity, professional fees and the improvement fund and cutting management, waste and out-of-hours costs, so that £16,055.19 (2023) and £19,419.82 (2024) are recoverable, and made an order under section 20C that the landlord cannot recover the costs of the proceedings through the service charge.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordSGL 1 Limited
Management companynone named
Managing agentXenia Estates Services Limited
BuildingAn estate, 233 flats
Service charge years in dispute2023, 2024
Items in disputeadministration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reducedlegal and professional fees, management fees, other, reserve fund, utilities
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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flats n
with apportionment matrices across 233 units
freeholder
The Respondent is the freeholder SGL 1 Limited, represented by Xenia Estates Services Limited.
agent
Xenia Estates Services Limited, who are also the management company in respect of the Property
years
estate service charge budgets for 2023 and 2024
outcome
are not payable or are payable only in reduced amounts
items reduced
the Tribunal did not allow any recovery in respect of either of these items
s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985

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