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LON/00BG/LSC/2023/0479 · service charges · Camden · decided 12 Dec 2024

The tribunal found most of the challenged service charges for 2020 to 2023 reasonable and payable, but reduced the insurance commission paid to Mura by half, reduced the 2020 landscaping charge to the 2021 level, and disallowed the gym rent for one quarter during COVID closure; the section 20C costs applications are to be decided later.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Not clear
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordRothwick LLP
Management companyHWFI Management Company Ltd
Managing agentnone named
BuildingA block, 211 flats
Service charge years in dispute2020, 2021, 2022
Items in disputecleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities
Items disallowed or reducedcleaning and grounds, insurance, other
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderednone stated

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flats n
contains 211 apartments in 6 blocks and 15 commercial units
years
the service charges for 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 and challenged in these proceedings were reasonably incurred and so the service charges are payable
outcome
save for: (a) The insurance commission paid to Mura is reduced by half;
items reduced
(a) The insurance commission paid to Mura is reduced by half; (b) The landscaping charge in 2020 is reduced to the same amount as in 2021;

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