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Out of Court Settlement Reached Over Opal Towers

2022-05-21T16:22:12+10:00

21 May 2021 According to Karen Stiles, executive director of apartment owners peak group Owners Corporation Network, the long-running case had exposed more than the cracks in the Opal Tower. “It was really the start of the turning point where the government had to admit we had a problem with rampant building defects in residential towers and actually had to do something to address it,” she said. Read more:> HERE

Out of Court Settlement Reached Over Opal Towers2022-05-21T16:22:12+10:00

Charger guide helps NSW buildings get electric vehicle ready

2022-05-25T19:04:59+10:00

More electric vehicle drivers can soon charge up at home and work, with a step-by-step guide released by the NSW Government, and a pilot site providing proof of concept for EV-ready buildings. The EV Ready Buildings materials and webinar registration details are available on the Drive electric NSW EV ready buildings webinar webpage. Speakers at the webinar include the EV Council Head of Energy and Infrastructure, Ross de Rango, and Owners Corporation [...]

Charger guide helps NSW buildings get electric vehicle ready2022-05-25T19:04:59+10:00

NSW Developer Hit With Fresh Orders to Fix Serious Defects

2022-05-25T17:59:58+10:00

A large Sydney developer has been ordered to fix serious defects in a 10-storey apartment building in the city’s southwest for the second time in three months. In the latest orders, the state’s building watchdog has warned of a serious defect in the construction of load-bearing walls in the Canterbury building’s basement car park which it found “did not support a ground floor slab”.  Read more:> HERE  

NSW Developer Hit With Fresh Orders to Fix Serious Defects2022-05-25T17:59:58+10:00

Home Building Act Review 2021

2022-04-28T11:25:07+10:00

16 MARCH 2022 OCN strongly supports the root and branch review of the Home Building Act 1989 and associated legislation, to ensure maximum consumer protections. Read submission: > OCN Submission - Home Building Act Review 2021 220316

Home Building Act Review 20212022-04-28T11:25:07+10:00

Relief for Residents Locked Out of Own Reception After Bitter Dispute

2022-03-21T11:47:26+11:00

A 25-year contract originally sold by developer Meriton for hundreds of thousands of dollars, giving another company exclusive rights for property management and letting services in one of their multi-storey apartment complexes, has been cancelled by a tribunal in a first for NSW. Apartment residents who successfully challenged the contract that earned Meriton an extra $310,000, in a practice that is now outlawed by the NSW Government, and which tied the [...]

Relief for Residents Locked Out of Own Reception After Bitter Dispute2022-03-21T11:47:26+11:00

Promoting Innovation for the NSW Energy Sector

2022-02-23T17:59:36+11:00

23 FEBRUARY 2022 OCN welcomes the NSW Government’s intention to deliver an energy system that puts the customer at the centre of policy and program design, while delivering an affordable and reliable energy future that helps achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Read submission: > OCN Submission - Promoting Innovation for the NSW Energy Sector February 2022

Promoting Innovation for the NSW Energy Sector2022-02-23T17:59:36+11:00

Sydney Apartment Investors Fear Debt Trap As Levies Skyrocket

2022-02-08T15:07:11+11:00

Investors from retirees to single mothers on low incomes fear losing their properties after their strata levies jumped from under $2000 per quarter to more than $10,000 for building repairs they had no say in approving. Bright and Duggan told the Herald it was appointed to do work that the owners’ corporation had “failed to undertake over many years with the highest priority of ensuring the building can be safely occupied”. Executive director [...]

Sydney Apartment Investors Fear Debt Trap As Levies Skyrocket2022-02-08T15:07:11+11:00

Smoking on the balcony of an apartment declared a ‘hazard’

2022-02-08T18:02:07+11:00

A Queensland regulator has banned a Surfers Paradise woman from smoking on her apartment balcony after a neighbour’s complaint, declaring it to be a “hazard” rather than a “nuisance”, in a move that could allow bodies corporate to outlaw smoking completely. “If you live with the urban myth that strata title is like a title to land, you are only encouraging ongoing conflict,” Mr Goddard, a spokesman for the Owners Corporation [...]

Smoking on the balcony of an apartment declared a ‘hazard’2022-02-08T18:02:07+11:00

Queensland unit dwellers could be barred from smoking on balconies after landmark decision

2022-01-27T13:48:03+11:00

20 JANUARY 2022 OCN talks to Dee Dee at 3AW about the news that Queenslanders living in apartments could be prevented from smoking on their balconies after a "game changing" decision to ban one unit owner from doing so after a complaint from an upstairs neighbour. The Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management's adjudicator ordered that the eighth-floor owner must no longer smoke tobacco products on the [...]

Queensland unit dwellers could be barred from smoking on balconies after landmark decision2022-01-27T13:48:03+11:00

This Sydney strata nightmare started as a power struggle — then the police were called

2021-11-30T15:59:17+11:00

27 November 2021 It's the stuff of Sydney strata nightmares: a cracking building, an expensive repair bill and an owners' meeting that got so heated the police turned up. The drama started in the basement of the Vicinity apartment towers in Canterbury earlier this month, when owners couldn't agree over who should be put in charge of managing the affairs of the troubled apartment block. Read article, watch TV clip: > This [...]

This Sydney strata nightmare started as a power struggle — then the police were called2021-11-30T15:59:17+11:00
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