In Floro v Owners – Units Plan No 630 (Unit Titles) [2017] ACAT 4 the applicant, Ms Floro, sought a review of a decision of the respondent owners corporation to decline to grant owners within the complex a ‘special privilege’ to erect support poles for a carport on an area of common property adjoining their…
Introduction A dispute over the airspace between two balconies in Queensland has provided the most comprehensive authority to date as to what is considered an ‘unreasonable refusal’ by owners corporations for the purposes of granting a common property right. The High Court decision in Ainsworth v Albrecht [2016] HCA 40 (Ainsworth) turned on the exercise…