noise & nuisance

Peak Body Warns Apartment & Unit Owners to Adopt Zero Tolerance for Schoolies Onslaught

2022-11-23T18:18:26+11:00

22 NOVEMBER 2022 The peak body for apartment and unit owners says strata owners and Owners Corporations should adopt a zero tolerance policy for unruly schoolies to avoid being left with damages bills of thousands of dollars. It says the parents of unruly schoolies should be held accountable and made to pay for any damages. Read full media release:> 221122 Peak Body Warns Apartment Owners to Adopt Zero Tolerance For Schoolies [...]

Peak Body Warns Apartment & Unit Owners to Adopt Zero Tolerance for Schoolies Onslaught2022-11-23T18:18:26+11:00

Airbnb ‘party animals’ face five-year ban in Christmas crackdown

2020-10-28T19:33:41+11:00

27 OCTOBER 2020 Consistently unruly Airbnb guests and hosts will be publicly shamed and banned for up to five years under new rules for the NSW short-term rental industry that come into force for the Christmas holidays. From December 18 the state's fair trading watchdog will have the power to craft conditions for short-term rental accommodation users and operators who have breached a new code of conduct. The new rules come [...]

Airbnb ‘party animals’ face five-year ban in Christmas crackdown2020-10-28T19:33:41+11:00

‘We’ve never had it this busy’: Home isolation drives renovation boom

2020-10-07T15:06:42+11:00

21 APRIL 2020 Builder Paul Rice is accustomed to constructing new houses and restoring old ones. But while some of his bigger projects have dried up due to the coronavirus crisis, demand for small jobs and maintenance - such as repairing dodgy door hinges - from homeowners in isolation has gone through the roof. "I've had a lot of people coming to me wanting to fix all the stuff that's been broken [...]

‘We’ve never had it this busy’: Home isolation drives renovation boom2020-10-07T15:06:42+11:00

Disrupting the disruptors: how COVID-19 will shake up Airbnb

2020-10-28T19:34:39+11:00

6 April 2020 Airbnb was built on the premise of bringing the world closer together. Tourists could travel like locals, while locals could cash in on their desirable neighbourhood properties by letting those visitors in. Last year the company was estimated to be worth more than US$30bn. It is scheduled to go public in 2020. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. Stephen Colman, who was an Airbnb host and ran an [...]

Disrupting the disruptors: how COVID-19 will shake up Airbnb2020-10-28T19:34:39+11:00

Compo over ‘unbearable’ noise in swanky Canberra apartment

2020-09-21T22:06:06+10:00

2 April 2020 A resident at Canberra's swanky Nishi apartment building has been awarded more than $20,000 in compensation over “unbearable” structual cracks the defective building makes — noises she compared to cannon fire. The noises, Ms de Gruchy said, were loud enough to wake a sleeping person, as frequently as every six minutes. The Daily Telegraph > Full article on The Daily Telegraph

Compo over ‘unbearable’ noise in swanky Canberra apartment2020-09-21T22:06:06+10:00
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