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Welcome to our latest Newsletter

Good afternoon & welcome to another edition of LookUpStrata News.

Of course, the big strata news at the moment is the NSW Strata Reform. Read below to find a link to the Paper, plus a list of relevant news articles that have published over the past week on the subject. Have no connection to strata in NSW? This information is still important to strata in your state or territory, so read on & see what changes are happening.

If you are interested in keeping up with strata news from around the web, follow us on Twitter and Facebook, or contact me at administration@lookupstrata.com.au to be added to our weekly strata news summary.

Please feel free to send me relevant information you feel would benefit the LookUpStrata community. Please contact me at administration@lookupstrata.com.au.

Thanks

Nikki

Issuing Notices of Meetings:
A Managers Obligation

Bailey Compton,
Leverage Solicitors Australia
In the Strata Managers Scheme 1996, decisions of Owners Corporation are either determined executively or via general meetings. Most important decisions occur at either the AGM or EGM. In most cases, the calling of a general meeting is mandatory. Most often, it is merely a process of keeping the strata moving along and no contentious decisions being made. Owners Corporations however do have resp.......

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Update on the Insurance Crisis in North Queensland

By Margaret Shaw
I will try to make this brief but so much has happened in the last couple of months and I am feeling tremendously optimistic at the moment as a number of things are coming together after more than 2 years of fighting:

 

 

  1. Tony Abbot wants to open North Australia and that can’t happen whilst the insurance is out of control
  2. Warren Entsch MP is now the chair of the White Paper into how to open North Australia and has insurance as one of his top priorities. George Chri...
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Breaking Strata News

NSW Strata Reform

The BIG strata news at the moment is the NSW strata Reform Paper. If you have not had time to view the Paper, please follow this link.

There have been plenty of articles written about the reform. Here are links to just a few:

NSW strata law changes: 75% rule accomnews

Strata can lead to predatory, bullying and stalking-type activity Property Observers

SCA (NSW) welcomes NSW Government Law Reform Position Paper SCA Media Release

Should renters have a say in the management of residential buildings? Property Observers - thanks to John Timms for alerting me to this article.

Forum Question:

Q: What right does a strata owner have to lock the Owners Corporation Access Gate?

In Victoria, what right does an owner have to lock the Owners Corpn Access Gate to their front yard, thus denying access to tradesmen employed by the OC, with chairperson in attendance, please?

Are owners (& their family members in residence) allowed to lock out the OC and tradesmen?

This gate is to give access to elec....

A: Provided by Pam Lewer of Integra Strata
If the access is from Common Property to private property, the owner has every right to lock the gate. However if the access is from common property TO common property (which will be identified on the Plan of Subdivision) then the gate sh.....
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