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This is pretty basic stuff and even if your strata manager isn’t a lawyer, she should know this.
It is on an external wall (common property) in the front driveway and you can see it from the street. Not a single building in the whole street has a visible AC unit. In the Cumberland council DCP part B, it states: “Where an air conditioning unit is to be installed, the motor unit shall be located at the rear or side of the dwelling house and shall be appropriately noise attenuated and appropriately screened.”
I agree with you, this is basic stuff, owners cannot affix anything to common external walls without authorisation from the OC, and if they did then there is a breach of Strata law and by-laws. So I don’t understand the attitude of this strata manager who needs a lawyer to see that there is a breach. I thought knowing strata law and how to read legislation is a requirement to become a strata manager.