This case followed the decision in the previous Brudenall case, The Owners – Units Plan No 202 v Brudenall & Ors (Unit Titles) [2015] ACAT 64. It arose as a cross-application for a merits review was filed in the above proceedings but ultimately was heard as separate proceedings.
A merits review involves a tribunal standing in…
The respondents are owners of a unit and members of the applicant owners corporation. The applicant applied to the Tribunal for orders in relation to a range of unapproved alterations the respondents had made without the consent of the executive committee in contravention of Article 4(1) of the Articles of the Units Plan. At the…
The applicants were the owners of a unit in Units Plan 3488. One morning when the applicants were not present in the unit, a hose connected to the mains in the toilet cistern broke and water flowed out of the cistern into the apartment and into the common property in the hallway. There was consequent…
The applicant sought an order from ACAT that the owners corporation issue a rule infringement notice for various alleged breaches of House Rules and rules of the owners corporation.
In response, ACAT held that there is no general power in section 129 of the UTMA to order the executive committee or the owners corporation to exercise…
The owners corporation appealed a number of aspects of the original decision. The appeal was dealt with as a review under section 82(b) of the ACAT Act and the owners corporation needed to establish an error of fact or law in the original decision in order to succeed. The exercise of some of the powers…
The applicant is the Owners Units Plan No. 14 and the respondent is Mr Wright from Unit 2.
Since 2009 the owners had been trying to stop Mr Wright from using the common car park to store cars and car parts in ways which annoyed and inconvenienced other owners. The owners were also at times concerned,…
This matter concerns a residential property at Lyneham, ACT where the applicant was the executive committee and the respondent an owner of unit 29.
Around February 2019 a complaint was received by the executive committee about caravans/campers/boats parked in driveways at the property. The complaint stated that driveways are available for the use provided any parked…
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…
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…
Local ACT Builder Banyan Constructions Pty Ltd, was put into liquidation on 20 January 2020. This is likely to have significant repercussions for the owners of residential units built by Banyan Constructions in the last 5 years.
COVID-19 and the efforts to protect lives are currently dominating the lives of Australians, what does that mean for people living in strata buildings?