Princes Court, 88 Brompton Road, London, SW3 1ES
LON/00BK/LSC/2021/0295 · service charges · Westminster · decided 18 Feb 2022
The Tribunal found the service charges payable, except that the first year of a two-year drains contract is limited to £100 per lessee because consultation was not carried out.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused (from the later costs ruling on this case, linked below) |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | Sandrove Brahams & Associates Ltd |
| Building | A block, 91 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, 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
There are 91 flats on the second to tenth floors
- freeholder
the freeholder, Novel Property Investments Ltd, to the Respondent
- agent
Sandrove Brahams & Associates Ltd (trading as SBA Property Management)
- outcome
The service charges challenged in these proceedings are reasonable and payable, save that charges arising from the 2-year contract with Southern Drains is limited in the first year to £100 for each Applicant.
- s20
Mr [name] admitted that the 2-year contract engaged the statutory consultation requirements.
The passages each figure was read from, verbatim. People's names are replaced with [name].
The original
Later rulings on the same case (costs, section 20C, permission to appeal): 7 Apr 2022.
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