Sandgate Pavilions, Encombe, Sandgate, Folkestone, CT20 3TU
HAV/29UL/LSC/2025/0720 · service charges · Folkestone and Hythe · decided 15 Jun 2026
The tribunal found the 2024 and estimated 2025 service charges payable in full, held a £337.50 window cleaning recharge not payable, refused a section 20C order, and made a paragraph 5A order preventing recovery of the respondent's tribunal costs as administration charges.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | Sandgate Pavilion Management Company Limited |
| Management company | Sandgate Pavilion Management Company Limited |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block, 35 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2025 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | administration charges |
| 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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- flats n
contain a total of 35 flats comprising 14 flats in [name] House, 13 in [name] House, and 8 in [name] House
- freeholder
Respondent : Sandgate Pavilion Management Company Limited
- agent
[name], LH Property Block Management Ltd
- years
determination of liability to pay and reasonableness of service charges for the year ending 31 December 2025
- outcome
The Tribunal determines that the Administration Charge in the sum of £337.50 in respect of 2 [name] House is not payable.
- items reduced
The Tribunal determines that the Administration Charge in the sum of £337.50 in respect of 2 [name] House is not payable.
- s20c
The Tribunal does not make an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 preventing the Respondent from recovering the costs of the proceedings from the Applicants through the service charge.
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