What I am little bit confused about and would like some opinion on is:
1. Whether an individual by law has to be passed each time an owner changes common property?
or
2. Can a “cover all” by law be passed that makes owners (and future owners) liable for changes they made to common property?
From reading this thread it appears the consensus view is that 1 applies but reading past statements made on this site I was of the view that 2 applied. If 2 doesn’t and can’t be applied I would say the OC is in a very vunerable position. What if an owner makes a change and the OC doesn’t know about it (which in many cases it can’t) and then maintenance is later required?
In practice if 1 is the case, surely it will in many cases (one reason being because of the expense) encourage a culture of owner’s not declaring changes.