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Owners Question East End Contract

2021-09-14T16:51:50+10:00

June 2021 A group of owners in the new East End redevelopment has questioned how a company which shares a director with developer Iris Capital was awarded a lucrative long-term building management contract shortly before residents settled on the properties and moved in. Michael Parris Newcastle Herald Link page 1 of article Link page 2 of article Link to original article – https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/7271639/apartment-owners-question-25m-east-end-management-contract/?src=rss  

Owners Question East End Contract2021-09-14T16:51:50+10:00

NSW Draft Design & Building Practitioners Regulation 2020 

2021-02-01T10:47:36+11:00

15 JANUARY 2021 The D&PB legislation is incredibly important to owners – it creates a retrospective duty of care to owners by designers and building practitioners.  OCN made a detailed submission on the draft Regulations to improve consumer protections.   > Download PDF

NSW Draft Design & Building Practitioners Regulation 2020 2021-02-01T10:47:36+11:00

Going to the Dogs: D-Day for Strata By-Law

2020-10-21T11:10:22+11:00

OCN MEDIA RELEASE: 15 September 2020 The Owners Corporation Network (OCN) is calling on the NSW opposition and cross bench to withdraw their support for a controversial law threatening to destabilise the strata system – robbing people who live in apartments of the ability to set their own bylaws. Legislation amended by the Animal Justice Party (AJP) and set for possible debate this fortnight, will allow people to bring pets [...]

Going to the Dogs: D-Day for Strata By-Law2020-10-21T11:10:22+11:00

Barking Mad Changes to Strata By-Laws Could Spark Lord of the Flies in Apartment Buildings

2020-10-06T15:13:38+11:00

OCN MEDIA RELEASE: 13 September 2020 The comfort and safety of more than one million NSW residents in apartment buildings is at risk, with a shock amendment to legislation threatening to shake the strata system to its core. Last month a minor political party snuck an amendment through the NSW Upper House which effectively allows apartment dwellers to keep pets even if it’s against the building’s bylaws: 137B Keeping of [...]

Barking Mad Changes to Strata By-Laws Could Spark Lord of the Flies in Apartment Buildings2020-10-06T15:13:38+11:00

Sydney pet owners get shock win in the battle against apartment pet bans

2020-10-07T04:21:26+11:00

26 AUGUST 2020 It could soon be near-impossible for any apartment building to vote to keep pets out after a last-minute amendment to an unrelated bill scored a shock win in the NSW Legislative Council just before 10pm on Tuesday night. The move by the Animal Justice Party (AJP) means that, if the bill is passed by the Lower House in September, no strata scheme will be allowed to have a [...]

Sydney pet owners get shock win in the battle against apartment pet bans2020-10-07T04:21:26+11:00

Territory apartment owners demand time limits on building caretaker contracts

2020-10-07T16:20:43+11:00

20 OCTOBER 2019 Laws that allow property developers to appoint their relatives to long-term building caretaker contracts should be changed to better protect unit owners in the NT, the Owners Corporation Network says. It comes after residents in a Darwin apartment complex raised concerns that a company owned by the wife of the building's developer was contracted to oversee cleaning, maintenance and repairs for $120,000 per year for 25 years. Under [...]

Territory apartment owners demand time limits on building caretaker contracts2020-10-07T16:20:43+11:00
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