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The new Strata Schemes Management Act (2015) and Regulation (2016) took effect only a couple of weeks ago on November 30. This means the clock is ticking for owners corporations on by-laws issues.
Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be looking at the revisions to NSW’s model by-laws, which come into force on November 30 2016. They won’t automatically affect existing owners, but it’s a great time to consider updating your strata scheme’s by-laws to take advantage of the changes.
This week’s model by-law under the Strata Schemes Management Regulation 2016 comes with a meaningful change for modern strata properties where laundry facilities aren’t guaranteed.
Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be looking at the revisions to NSW’s model by-laws, which come into force on November 30 2016. They won’t automatically affect existing owners, but it’s a great time to consider updating your strata scheme’s by-laws to take advantage of the changes.
The changes to parking model by-laws are notable, but they’re a big ticket item when viewed alongside the ability for owners corporations to get council in on strata parking enforcement.
Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be looking at the revisions to NSW’s model by-laws, which come into force on November 30 2016. They won’t automatically affect existing owners, but it’s a great time to consider updating your strata scheme’s by-laws to take advantage of the changes.
One of the greatest challenges in strata is in the proximity of its residents. If an owners decides to change the way they use their property, for instance turning their property into a store or restaurant, it can impact individuals and the scheme at large through increased traffic and insurance premiums.
What can the model by-laws do about this?
Continue reading “New Model By-law Series #5 – Changes in Use”
Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be looking at the revisions to NSW’s model by-laws, which come into force on November 30 2016. They won’t automatically affect existing owners, but it’s a great time to consider updating your strata scheme’s by-laws to take advantage of the changes.
As someone who’s realised they just missed the garbage truck can confirm, we don’t care about the rubbish until it has piled up. The by-laws on waste-disposal have become more prescriptive, here’s how.
Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be looking at the revisions to NSW’s model by-laws, which come into force on November 30 2016. They won’t automatically affect existing owners, but it’s a great time to consider updating your strata scheme’s by-laws to take advantage of the changes.
This week we looked at the vexed issue of kids on common property; and how changes will make it easier for the children of owners to make use of common property.
Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be looking at the revisions to NSW’s model by-laws, which come into force on November 30 2016. They won’t automatically affect existing owners, but it’s a great time to consider updating your strata scheme’s by-laws to take advantage of the changes.
Smokers’ days may be numbered in strata. Caselaw indicates that adjudicators would rather prohibit smoking than support smokers whose smoke drifts onto common or lot property.
New model by-laws and an instruction on nuisances are likely to empower owners corporations already looking to butt out.
Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be looking at the revisions to NSW’s model by-laws, which come into force on November 30 2016. They won’t automatically affect existing owners, but it’s a great time to consider updating your strata scheme’s by-laws to take advantage of the changes.
This week we’re looking at pets, a contentious issue in strata and one that is being simplified.
A finding by the High Court of Australia regarding a Noosa body corporate’s by-law dispute has refuted a common misconception about strata; it can be reasonable to refuse a common property rights by-law when there’s nothing in it for you.
Nothing in the BCCM Act suggests that an opponent to a proposal acts unreasonably in failing to act sympathetically or altruistically towards a proponent who seeks to diminish the property rights of the opponent.
While court judgments such as the Watergate Docklands case are swinging in favour of the right to use residential apartments for short-term letting through sites like Stayz and Airbnb, the NSW government has quietly slipped a useful provision in its new model by-laws that will help those trying to stop this practice.
Continue reading “NSW’s new strata laws have a sting in store for celebrating Airbnb fans”
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