Guildhall Apartments, 10 Park Walk, Southampton, SO14 7BL
CHI/00MS/LSC/2022/0097 · service charges · Southampton · decided 20 Mar 2023
The tribunal decided that the standing charge and system usage costs for the heating and hot water system are part of the Heating and Hot Water Service Charge, apportioned by net internal floor area, and refused the leaseholders' section 20C application.
| Outcome | Other decision |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Harborne Holdings Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Avignon Property Management |
| Building | A block, 38 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022 |
| Items in dispute | utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | none stated |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
a development of 38 privately owned apartments
- freeholder
Respondents : Harborne Holdings Limited
- agent
from that date [name] Property Management has been the managing agent
- outcome
The Tribunal decides that the standing charge and the costs of the system usage for the heating and hot water system are costs associated with the communal supply and are part of the Heating and Hot Water Service Charge.
- s20c
The Tribunal considers it just and equitable not to make an Order under section 20C of the 1985 Act preventing the Landlord from recovering the costs of these proceedings through the service charge.
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