by-laws

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

Latest NCAT decision on by-laws affecting the keeping of animals

2021-03-10T19:32:41+11:00

9 MARCH 2021 - OCN Statement On 1 March 2021, NCAT senior member R C Titterton OAM handed down a decision in the matter of McGregor v The Owners – Strata Plan Nº 74896.   The building in which Mr McGregor and his partner live is part of a complex in Camperdown where each of the individual stratas is required to comply with the by-laws of the Community Management Statement for [...]

Latest NCAT decision on by-laws affecting the keeping of animals2021-03-10T19:32:41+11:00

Pets in Strata

2020-10-22T15:25:33+11:00

13 OCTOBER 2020 Listen to a radio segment recording from ABC Radio Sydney including an interview with Karen Stiles, Executive Officer of OCN,  discussing pets in strata. ABC Radio Sydney, Breakfast with Robbie Buck & Wendy Harmer.

Pets in Strata2020-10-22T15:25:33+11:00

Peak Body warns of unintended consequences of pet ban reversal

2020-10-20T11:37:02+11:00

13 OCTOBER 2020 A legal challenge to overturn a ban on keeping pets in apartments in NSW will have unintended consequences, strata owner advocates warn. The NSW Court of Appeal ruled blanket bans on pets in apartments were unlawful. Owners Corporation Network executive officer Karen Stiles warned the ruling would have far-reaching implications. “Strata is one of the fastest growing forms of housing. “Australians don’t seem to understand that along with [...]

Peak Body warns of unintended consequences of pet ban reversal2020-10-20T11:37:02+11:00

Pets Now Allowed in Sydney Apartments

2020-10-15T20:22:04+11:00

13 OCTOBER 2020 This little doggie in the window’s big court win means pets are now allowed in Sydney apartments. Jo Cooper has won a four-and-a-half-year legal battle to keep her miniature schnauzer Angus in her Darlinghurst Horizon unit block. The pair overcame the building’s blanket pet ban after a unanimous ruling in the NSW Court of Appeal. The Court overturned blanket bans on pets being allowed in any apartment building [...]

Pets Now Allowed in Sydney Apartments2020-10-15T20:22:04+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

‘Nail in the coffin of democracy’: It’s D-day for Sydney’s prize dog fight

2020-10-07T04:18:35+11:00

13 SEPTEMBER 2020 It's the dog fight that has captivated Sydney - or at least a small part of it - and this month it will command the attention of the state's peak lawmaking bodies: the Parliament and the Supreme Court. For five years, musician Jo Cooper has battled the strata committee of her apartment block, the Horizon, which stands tall among the terraces of inner-city Darlinghurst. Her quest: to keep [...]

‘Nail in the coffin of democracy’: It’s D-day for Sydney’s prize dog fight2020-10-07T04:18:35+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
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