Rosslyn Mansions, 21 Goldhurst Terrace, London NW6 3HD
LON/00AG/LSC/2021/0036 · service charges · Camden · decided 3 Jun 2021
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal appointed a manager for Rosslyn Mansions, limited recovery of the 2017 major works to £250 per flat for lack of section 20 consultation, disallowed the 2019 legal costs, disallowed nothing else, and made a section 20C order.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Winstonworth Ltd |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | One flat, 3 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, legal and professional fees, major works, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, major works |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | the respondent to reimburse the applicants' tribunal issue fee of £100 and hearing fee of £200 |
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What the decision says
- flats n
Rosslyn Mansions is a building comprising thirteen residential flats.
- freeholder
The respondent is the freehold owner and is the landlord upon these leases.
- years
to challenge the payability and reasonableness of service charges for each year from 2009 to 2019
- outcome
We limit recovery in respect of the major works to £250 per flat.
- items reduced
We note that the landlord has abandoned its claim to legal costs in 2019.
- s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 preventing the landlord recovering its costs of these proceedings through the service charge.
- s20
the landlord accepted that due to the failure to carry out a section 20 consultation recovery was limited to £250 in respect of the major works.
- costs
We therefore order that the landlord do reimburse those sums.
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