Brent London Borough Council v Shulem B Association Ltd

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Covenant — Service charge — Landlord carrying out extensive works to flats — Landlord’s letter to tenants stating estimate of costs incurred but giving no figure for actual costs — Landlord subsequently claiming payment of service charge based on costs incurred in carrying out works — Tenant seeking to strike out claim on basis that costs incurred more than 18 months before “demand for payment” made — Whether letter valid “demand for payment of the service charge” — Whether letter written notification that “those costs” had been incurred and contribution would subsequently be required by way of service charge — Whether claim to be struck out — Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, s 20B(2) (as inserted by Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, s 41, Sch 2, para 4)

[2011] 1 WLR 3014

Words & Phrases

"Demand for payment of the service charge" — Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, s 20B (as inserted)

"Those costs" — Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, s 20B (as inserted)

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Brent London Borough Council v Shulem B Association Ltd [2011] EWHC 1663 (Ch); [2011] 1 WLR 3014; [2011] 4 All ER 778, Ch D

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Cases citing

Cases citing: Brent London Borough Council v Shulem B Association Ltd [2011] EWHC 1663 (Ch); [2011] 1 WLR 3014; [2011] 4 All ER 778, Ch D

Braganza v The Riverside Group Ltd (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES - lease providing for annual apportionment of cost of services by landlord's surveyor) [2023] UKUT 243 (LC), UT

Burr v OM Property Management Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 479; [2013] 1 WLR 3071; [2013] HLR 29; [2013] 2 EGLR 84; [2013] WLR (D) 164, CA

East Tower Apartments Ltd v No 1 West India Quay (Residential) Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1119; [2021] WLR(D) 403, CA

Parmar v 127 Ladbroke Grove Ltd [2022] UKUT 213 (LC), UT

Point West GR Ltd v Bassi (Practice Note) [2020] EWCA Civ 795; [2020] 1 WLR 4102; [2020] WLR(D) 369, CA

Shulem B Association v London Borough of Brent [2011] EWHC 1663 (Ch), Ch D

Skelton v DBS Homes (Kings Hill) Ltd [2017] EWCA Civ 1139; [2018] 1 WLR 362; [2017] WLR(D) 531, CA

Williams v Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP Ltd [2023] UKSC 6; [2023] AC 855; [2023] 2 WLR 484; [2023] 2 All ER 797, SC(E)