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Maddox House Beech Drive Trumpington Cambridge CB2 9PQ

CAM/12UB/LSC/2019/0075 · service charges · Cambridge · decided 19 Jun 2020

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The tribunal reduced several service charge items for 2016/17 to 2019/20 at Maddox House and made a 50% section 20C order limiting the landlord's costs of the proceedings.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordE&J Ground Rents No5 LLP
Management companynone named
Managing agentEncore Estate Management Limited
BuildingOne flat, 5 flats
Service charge years in dispute2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Items in disputeadministration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reducedcleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedthe applicant

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What the decision says

flats n
the Property (Maddox House) is a four-storey residential block of five flats
freeholder
1. E&J Ground Rents No5 LLP
agent
Encore Estate Management Limited took over from June 2018
years
four service charge years from 2016/17 to 2019/20
outcome
The service charge account for the 2016/17 service charge year is to be adjusted as follows
items reduced
£90 is to be deducted from the clearance and fire exit signage charge of £342 (item 3)
s20c
The tribunal orders, under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (the “1985 Act”), that 50% of any costs incurred by the Respondents
costs
The tribunal makes no order for reimbursement of the application fee.

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