Prepare your First-tier Tribunal application

Check the current Leasehold 3 form (opens in a new tab) and T541 guidance (opens in a new tab) on GOV.UK immediately before filing. The published Leasehold 3 form (opens in a new tab) currently lists a £114 application fee and a £227 hearing fee. Check the fee for your application immediately before filing, including any later fee changes or Help with Fees eligibility.

Describe the premises, parties, lease and charge years precisely. Attach only the documents needed to understand the application at this stage unless the form or directions require more.

• Current Leasehold 3 form (opens in a new tab)
• Correct applicant(s) and respondent(s)
• Lease and relevant variations
• Demand/accounts for each year
• Short statement of case
• Issue schedule
• Fee remission check if relevant

For each issue state the amount demanded, the amount you say is payable and why. Identify whether the point concerns the meaning of the lease, reasonableness of cost, standard of work, consultation, evidence of expenditure or another rule.

Ask separately for fee reimbursement, a section 20C order and, where relevant, paragraph 5A protection. These are not all the same costs remedy.

At application stage, identify what will prove each row. The tribunal’s directions will normally shape the final bundle. Keep the source documents unedited and create working copies for pagination later.