HAV/43UB/LSC/2025/0790
HAV/43UB/LSC/2025/0790 · service charges · Elmbridge · decided 22 Sep 2026
The Tribunal reduced the management fee and insurance charges for the years in dispute, found that some costs such as motoring, telephone, accountancy and bank charges were not recoverable as service charge, made a section 20C order, and ordered the landlord to pay one-third of the applicant's costs under Rule 13.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | insurance, management fees, other |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | respondent to pay applicant £1816.67 under Rule 13 |
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What the decision says
- freeholder
demanded by the managing St Georges Lodge Owners Association Limited for the years 2020–2025
- years
The Applicant challenges service charges levied in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- outcome
The Tribunal concludes that the management charge should have been calculated accordingly in the service charge years in question.
- items reduced
the only insurance costs properly rechargeable under the terms of the lease are those relating to the buildings insurance
- s20c
the Tribunal determines that it is just and equitable in the circumstances for an order to be made under section 20C of the 1985 Act
- costs
The Tribunal orders the Respondent to pay to the Applicant within 21 days of the date of this decision its costs in the amount of £1816.67.
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