Various Properties on Dickens Estate
LON/00BE/LSC/2025/0850 · service charges · Southwark · decided 2 Jan 2026
figures not yet checkedThe tribunal dismissed most of the leaseholders' challenges to estate lighting, overheads, administration fees and works, but reduced the 2023 charge for Bardell House by a proportion of the cost of a bin that was missing for a year.
| Outcome | Not stated |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Refused |
| Section 20 consultation | Not in issue |
| Who applied | Leaseholder(s) |
| Freeholder / landlord | not a company, or not stated |
| Management company | none named |
| Managing agent | none named |
| Building | A block |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Items in dispute | administration charges, cleaning and grounds, insurance, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | none stated |
| 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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What the decision says
- years
Mr [name] challenged the 10% administration fees charged in respect of Bardell House for the years 2017 to 2024.
- s20c
The tribunal does not make orders under paragraph 5A of [name] 11 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Ref0rm Act 2002 or section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, or for the reimbursement of fees.
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The original
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