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Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive, London N11 3FL

LON/00AC/LSC/2022/0263 · service charges · Barnet · decided 1 Nov 2023

The tribunal decided that building insurance should be apportioned equally between all flats, that the insurance premiums were reasonable, that leaseholders' contributions to window refurbishment are limited to £250 each because of a consultation failure, that the management fee is reduced to £250 + VAT per unit, that book-keeping charges are disallowed, and that Megadene door entry charges are reduced to £50 per unit per year.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Not applied for
Section 20 consultationConsultation failure found
Who appliedLandlord or management company
Freeholder / landlordnot a company, or not stated
Management companynone named
Managing agentnone named
BuildingA block, 277 flats
Service charge years in dispute2020, 2021, 2022
Items in disputeadministration charges, insurance, major works, management fees, other, utilities
Items disallowed or reducedadministration charges, management fees, other, utilities
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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flats n
comprising 277 flats, with an additional 83 flats in a new building
freeholder
Applicant : Brookstream Properties Limited
years
all in respect of the 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 service charge years
outcome
The management fee is reduced to £250 + VAT per unit for each of the service charge years 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23.
items reduced
The book-keeping charges are disallowed in their entirety for each of the service charge years 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23.
s20
the Applicant failed to carry out a section 20 consultation process in relation to the window refurbishment

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