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When commercial and residential properties are part of the same Strata block is it usual for commercial properties to pay their own water rates?
Currently we have only one meter for the block, with the exception of one commercial property, a restaurant, where a dedicated meter has long been in use. A large hairdressing salon is to open in another commercial apartment in the block and the owners are refusing to install their own water meter. The water usage of a salon will be considerable one would imagine. Can / should the executive committee insist that the salon install their own meter when the salon fitout is being done?
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You can’t get turkeys to vote for Christmas.
Pass a by-law that commercial properties need to be responsible for their own water usage (if you can get the 75 percent of the vote). If you can’t, go to NCAT and ask for orders along those lines.
Building managers who were absolutely ruthless might shut off the water to the salon for essential maintenance at peak times due to concerns that there must be a leak. Not that I am recommending that. But it would get their attention.
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