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Do you ever feel like it’s impossible to predict how the law will apply to your community titles scheme, or how your by-laws will be interpreted if they are ever disputed? Working out how the law applies to your scheme and circumstances can be challenging. In previous articles, I’ve briefly touched on the benefits of…
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On 17 October 2017, we reported on a District Court of Queensland’s decision that barred a body corporate from recovering outstanding contributions where those contributions had been outstanding for more than two years and two months (view that article here). This caused significant confusion and disrupted longstanding practices in the strata industry, as nearly every…
Read MoreUnder the Sustainable Sydney 2030 strategic plan the City of Sydney provided innovation grant funding to study Electric Vehicle (EV) charging in residential apartment buildings. The final report was approved on 26th July 2018. The study was conducted by Wattblock with in-kind contributions from Evercharge, AGL and Tesla. You can download a copy of the report…
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If you don’t know whether the cladding on your building is combustible (or to use the less scary word – non-conforming), you are soon going to be forced to find out. The issue over what cladding has been used on buildings crystallised after the Grenfell Tower fire in the UK in 2017. Australia’s equivalent (without…
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