Bear in mind that the law changed late last year so the criteria for what is required may have changed.
You need to get the owner to separate the overall work into cosmetic, non-major and major alteration, each of which requires a different level of approval.
It is in their interest to do this as they don’t want to risk work that doesn’t require a high level of approval being delayed by failure to pass the big ticket items in an all-inclusive proposal.
The differences are defined in the Sections 109-111 of the strata Act and Section 28 of the Regulations.