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Our strata of 36 in Sydney is about half let and half owner-occupied. Historically, owners have been mostly apathetic and uninvolved, leaving the managing of the building to a small but sensible (now called) Strata Committee of resident owners and one or two ‘involved’ landlord owners. We have a Strata Manager.
Recently a group of newer, younger owners took control of the Committee at an AGM and cleverly got approval for an expensive but appalling, tasteless alteration to Common Property in the form of a pathway creating a thoroughfare through what was previously a peaceful garden outlook. It’s like an expressway cutting a swathe through a rainforest. The character of the building has changed for the worse. Little information was provided but approval was just smashed through regardless of a couple of reasonable objections.
This pathway greatly benefits one particular member of the Strata Committee who ‘drove’ it and lives on the ground floor, at the back. That’s the first thing. Second is that an area adjacent to his unit is, at this stage, not touched and long-term residents suspect he will try and turn it into some sort of ‘entertaining area’ and pave it or something.
But they also have other expensive plans for ‘landscaping’ the car park area and have provided as little information as they did for the abhorrent pathway.
I think we need to inform everyone of our concerns. Do you agree? And how might we do it and stop them, at least until complete information is provided and a plan can be agreed to?
None of us like the idea of confrontation. It has been peaceful here for years.