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CAM/00KA/LSC/2021/0051 · service charges · Luton · decided 8 Feb 2022

The tribunal found that service charges claimed from the previous landlord's account were not payable, and that only half of the estimated 2021 service charges demanded were payable, with the respondent ordered to repay £300 in fees and a section 20C order made.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentEagerstates Ltd
BuildingA block, 30 flats
Service charge years in dispute2021
Items in disputeinsurance, management fees, other, reserve fund, utilities
Items disallowed or reducedinsurance, management fees
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedrespondent to reimburse application and hearing fees totalling £300

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flats n
converted (apparently in about 2018) into 30 residential flats
freeholder
Respondent : Assethold Limited
agent
Their managing agents (Eagerstates Ltd) said the dispute related to arrears
years
payable by the relevant Applicants to the Respondent as the second half of the estimated service charges for 2021
outcome
the following service charges are (or, to the extent the relevant Applicants have already paid them, were) payable by the relevant Applicants to the Respondent as the second half of the estimated service charges for 2021
items reduced
the relevant sums demanded by the Respondent are not payable by the Applicants
s20c
we have decided that it would be just and equitable to make an order under section 20C of the 1985 Act to ensure there is no doubt about this
costs
The tribunal orders the Respondent to pay £300 to the Applicants, to reimburse the tribunal application and hearing fees paid by them.

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