Apartment buildings that restrict residents from drying their washing outdoors are facing a push to relax the rules as sustainability and cost-of-living concerns make dryers less desirable.
Karen Stiles, executive director of the Owners Corporation Network of Australia, said conflict over laundry was becoming more common in both states because new developments were not designed for people’s needs. While older apartment blocks typically had communal clotheslines, this had “gone out the window with the new builds”.
“It’s outrageous … people are being forced to use dryers,” Stiles said. “We’ve got to get off the fossil fuels and start focusing on cutting down emissions however we can, let alone the cost of living and the cost of clothes dryers.”
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