[2025] UKUT 173 (LC)

This appeal is from a decision handed down on 19 March 2024 by the First-tier Tribunal, Property Chamber (the FTT) in which it reduced the service charges payable by the respondent, Ms Syed, under her lease of flat 1 Pinewood House, in Guildford, for the years 2014/15 to 2022/23, from the total sum of £8,594.69 which she had paid, to a reduced total (by my calculation) of £3,450.54. Her landlord, Mr Webber, now appeals with the permission of the Tribunal.

The sums in dispute are modest and represented payments made over a period of nine years. The Tribunal originally directed that the appeal would be determined on paper but, characteristically, the parties were unable to agree which documents were relevant and the matter was eventually listed for hearing. At that hearing the parties each represented themselves.

The Tribunal gave Mr Webber permission to appeal on four grounds.