I have been informed by our owners corp that proxies I received from lot owners in anticipation of a special resolution are not valid – only after a letter and agenda is sent by the owners corp will proxies be accepted. further I am told that only 25 per cent need to vote no and experience of general meetings is that only 20 or so owners turn up and it is easy to get 4 or 5 voting against in this instance my neighbour is more aligned with a number of owners and has I am told already secured a voting block regardless of whether I am successful at the community estate level. I have also been informed by the owners corp that they will seek orders to make me remove the shutters if I go ahead without permissions and that I am unlikely to win the case if I try to get adjudicators orders as there is now a very detailed document trail explaining due process .
Heaven help us if this is what is supposed to be community living !