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LON/00AZ/LSC/2022/0240 · service charges · Lewisham · decided 6 Feb 2024

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The Tribunal allowed some estate service charge items for 2017 to 2021 in full, reduced several others to set caps, and disallowed professional fees, waste management, and communal heating costs, while the respondents must reimburse the applicant's £300 tribunal fee.

OutcomeReduced
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)Order made
Section 20 consultationNot in issue
Who appliedLeaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlordLewisham Gateway Estate Management Company
Management companyLewisham Gateway Estate Management Company
Managing agentJFM Block and Estate Management LLP
BuildingAn estate
Service charge years in dispute2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Items in disputecleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities
Items disallowed or reducedcleaning and grounds, legal and professional fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities
Total demandednot stated as one figure
Total found payablenot stated as one figure
Fees or costs orderedSecond and Third Respondents to reimburse tribunal fee £300

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What the decision says

freeholder
(3) [name] Estate
agent
JFM Block and Estate Management LLP
years
service charges are payable in the service charge years 2017 to 2021
outcome
should not exceed £3,000 per year
items reduced
the Tribunal finds that no costs under this heading are payable
s20c
The Tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and
costs
reimburse the Tribunal fees in the sum of £300 paid by the First Applicant

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