LON/00AD/LSC/2025/0741 — service charge decision
In LON/00AD/LSC/2025/0741, decided 20 October 2025, the First-tier Tribunal considered 2 disputed service charge items at Flats 1 & 3, 96-98 High Street, Sidcup and found largely for the leaseholder: 1 item was reduced or disallowed. Full decision on GOV.UK below.
Property: Flats 1 & 3, 96-98 High Street, Sidcup
Decision date: 20 October 2025
Full decision: Read on GOV.UK
Managing agent named in the decision: DVS Management Limited.
What was challenged and what the tribunal decided
| Item | Demanded | Allowed | Outcome | Grounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major works (2023) | £8,700 | £500 | Reduced | No Section 20 consultation |
| Management fees (2023) | £840 | £0 | conceded | — |
Section 20C order: granted.
Key passages (verbatim)
“Lacking any evidence of consultation, or of dispensation from the requirements, and as indicated to the parties at the hearing, we must inevitably find that the Applicant's liability towards the roof works is limited per section 20 of the 1985 Act to £250 per flat.”
“we are required only to determine whether the Respondent is limited to recovery of £250.00 per flat in respect of the 2023 roof works (the works management fee having been conceded).”
“While we have sympathy with the Respondent insofar as its attempts to contact DVS have been fruitless, nevertheless it is for the Respondent to hold its Managing Agent accountable for proper management, by putting into place proper requirements for the accountability of that agent. The Respondent put the management wholly in DVS's control and maintained no oversight of what DVS did as a consequence.”
This summary is assembled from the structured record of the published decision; amounts appear only where the tribunal stated them. Always rely on the full decision itself.