Northwood Hall, Hornsey Lane, London, N6 5PN
LON/00AP/LSC/2022/0206 · service charges · Haringey · decided 24 May 2024
The tribunal decided that legal costs cannot be recovered through the service charge under the lease, while accountancy work to reconstitute the accounts after management changes is recoverable, and it made no findings on years before 2012.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Not clear |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Triplark Limited |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | KMP Solutions Limited |
| Building | A block, 194 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2011 |
| Items in dispute | legal and professional fees, major works, reserve fund |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees |
| 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
comprises 194 flats.
- freeholder
The Respondent is Triplark Limited which is the freehold owner of Northwood Hall
- agent
Directors of KMP Solutions Limited which has managed Northwood Hall since December 2019.
- years
dating back to the year ended 30th June 2011
- outcome
In our view clause 5(11) does not give the landlord the right to recover legal costs as part of the service charge.
- items reduced
In our view clause 5(11) does not give the landlord the right to recover legal costs as part of the service charge.
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