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an owner has proposed a special by-law at the forthcoming AGM, to allow the retrospective approval of existing internal plantation shutters.
The shutters have been in place for several years in nearly half the units.
The question is are plantation shutters installed in lieu of ” internal blinds and curtains” allowed under the provisions of Section 109 (2) (g).
There is a range of internal window covers including vertical louvres, curtains and holland type blinds as well as the internal plantation shutters which are of a uniform type and fairly neutral colour.
Most of the plantation shutters are at the rear or side of the building.
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Unless the by-law includes a provision that the lot owners are responsible for the upkeep of the blinds, I don’t see any point. What is the by-law intended to achieve?
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I find this question interesting because I’m about to install plantation shutters.
SSMA 2015 Section 109 Clause 2 has a list of things which can be considered “cosmetic work” and not require permission of the Owners Corporation. That list includes installation of “internal blinds and curtains”.
I think Thirsty is asking whether internal plantation shutters would count as “internal blinds and curtains”.
If not, Thirsty considered SSMA 2015 Section 109 Clause 4, which says:
“The by-laws of a strata scheme may specify additional work that is to be cosmetic work for the purposes of this section.”
Thirsty’s OC could update its by-laws to explicitly state that internal plantation shutters are another form of “cosmetic work” as directed by this clause:
I suppose internal plantation shutters were not well known when the Act was drafted.