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It looks like I’ll need to see a specialist solicitor if I really want to pursue this and maybe nothing like it has never come up in a legal case. The Act does imply that each unit has a bin so if our council won’t allow that (and there isn’t enough room for the excessive bins we have – once when they weren’t taken out for a week an EC member had a typical solution – get more bins) presumably a by-law would be needed to specify bin sharing arrangements which just gets me back to the original question.

Sensible suggestions aren’t the issue here; the council won’t collect them from the property (insurance issue apparently) – previously a resident was paid $10 a week to take the bins out, back in , cleaned regularly as well as tidying up overfilled etc. bins during the week; after tax costs for most unit owners would have been around sixty cents per week.

The EC have stated that they are planning on removing two clotheslines; demolishing a substantial part of an already small garden bed to re fit the lines and then move the bins to where the clotheslines were – where they will be exposed to sun and rain. Two stated reasons: 1) This will move the bins closer to the pick up point by about 13 metres (but further away from the back door so everyone would need to walk an extra 26metres to put rubbish in them!

2) (This where some will think this is made up) It will reduce the dumping of furniture etc. because the bins will be slightly more visible i.e. the implication being that dumpers would somehow only leave furniture near bins – not in the now spacious area vacated by the bins.

If it happens it probably won’t even appear on the agenda for an EC meeting and taking to the NCAT after the expensive work might just mean that they would learn about Special resolutions and pass it retrospectively. So there may be no solution, a letter listing my objections received a reply that could be paraphrased as – there is a problem, we have thought up an answer so it must be right.

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