Ground Floor Flat 140 Drayton Park N5 1 LX
LON/00AU/LSC/2025/0820 · service charges · Islington · decided 21 Nov 2025
The tribunal found most of the disputed service charges for 2016 to 2023 payable, but capped a surveyor's fee at £250 because consultation was not carried out, cut the £75 LPE1 fee to a reasonable £75 from £650, found £650 interest not payable, made a s.20C and paragraph 5A order, and ordered the respondents to reimburse the tribunal fees.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 4 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, insurance, legal and professional fees, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges, legal and professional fees |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondents to reimburse the applicant's tribunal fees £330 |
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What the decision says
- flats n
a terraced Victorian property which has been converted into four flats
- years
service charge years 2016/2017 to 2022/2023
- outcome
The sum of £650 demanded by the Respondent by way of interest was an administration charge and is not payable by the Applicant.
- items reduced
the amount recoverable from the Applicant is capped at £250
- s20c
the tribunal determines that it is just and equitable in the circumstances for an order to be made under section 20C
- s20
The Respondents did not engage with the statutory consultation process prior to making this demand
- costs
the Respondents shall pay the Applicant £330 within 28 days of this Decision
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