The ACT Government announced the Private Buildings Cladding Scheme (the Scheme) on 21 July 2021 to assist owners corporations of eligible Class 2 (residential apartment) or mixed use (residential apartment and other uses) buildings in the ACT to test whether their building has combustible cladding. The Scheme is part of the ACT Cladding Program (started…
The applicants are the owners of three units in a block of six. The respondents are the owners corporation and the owners of three other units with a combined voting entitlement of 50.5%.
The applicants sought the repeal or amendment of an ordinary resolution which amended the Sinking Fund Plan to enable a list of proposed…
The applicant in these proceedings owned and resided in unit 13 of Units Plan 706 which is located on the side of a hill and consists of 13 townhouses each with its own driveway and garage. As Unit 13 is situated towards the bottom of that hill, when it rains heavily water runs down the…
The applicant was the owner and occupier of unit 3 in Units Plan 2292. In May 2013, the applicant notified the owners corporation of water ingress into the unit from the balcony, which was caused by inadequate waterproofing in the external wall (which formed common property). The water ingress also caused rot to the unit’s…
The applicant is the owner of a unit in Units Plan 10. In August 2014, the property manager of the applicant notified the respondent of a leak outside the kitchen of the applicant’s unit. The respondent then engaged plumbers to investigate the problem to remedy it and it appears that the problem on the common…
On Sunday 1 November 2020, the amendments to the Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011 will commence. Please find the following link for our summary table of the amendments.
Unit Titles Legislation Amendment Act 2020 Summary Table
Snapshot
The Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Act 2020 imposes greater obligations on developers and introduces significant investigative and enforcement powers for the NSW Government.
Developers are now obliged to notify the Secretary of the Department of Customer Service of the expected completion date of building work.
NSW Government has greater power…
On 23 July 2020 the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism tabled its report on the Inquiry into Building Quality and made 48 recommendations (see https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1605368/9th-EDT-09-Inquiry-into-Building-Quality.pdf).
The Committee has made recommendations in the following areas:
The approach of the regulator;
Consumer advice and protection;
Contracts and dispute resolution;
Licensing of participants in…
The applicants are unit owners in the respondent’s strata complex consisting of 88 class A units, 84 of which have an entry way comprising a floor to ceiling combined window/door (the window/door). On the upper levels the window/door opens onto a balcony, and on the lower levels it opens onto a small porch that in…
This application was for review of a decision by the respondent on 22 March 2019 to make a rectification order pursuant to section 38 of the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004 (COLA) requiring the applicant to take certain stated actions to rectify building work done at premises in Bruce, ACT (premises).
The applicant raised a threshold…
On 30 April 2020, sections 3 and 111 of the Unit Titles Legislation Amendment Act 2020 and the Unit Titles (Management) Amendment Regulation 2020 (No 1) commenced. The combined effect of the above is that an owners corporation and the executive committee of an owners corporation are exempt from any requirement in the Unit Titles…
On 30 April 2020 sections 3 and 111 of the Unit Titles Legislation Amendment Act 2020 commenced (the remaining provisions of the Unit Titles Legislation Amendment Act 2020 will commence on 1 November 2020) and the Unit Titles (Management) Amendment Regulation 2020 (No 1) commenced.
The combined effect of the above is that an owners corporation…