They’re building a block of units next door….

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    DampAndCranky
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      Hi everyone.

      I am on the EC of a block of units in suburban Sydney. Like many other parts of the city, we have quite a bit of development going on in our suburb.

      For the last six months, we have been living next door to a construction site as a new block of units is built.

      Without wanting to be too specific, the developer has had access to our common property: we negotiated a fee for the installation of anchors on our common property (the builder needed these installed apparently) and there’s been a bit of argy bargy over common fencing.

      The latest issue is particularly concerning to our committee: the builder has sent a request (under the Accessing Neighbouring Land Act, he said) to erect a significant amount of scaffolding on our property for 6 months. He has promised it won’t block resident access but said the scaffolding had to go up within 14 days.

      We have been told by our strata manager that if we fail to provide access within the 14 days, the builder will take us to the Environmental Court where she believes they will be granted the access regardless (this is also why we negotiated compensation for the anchors being installed – we were told the builder could take us to the Environmental Court for this). Is this true?

      We’re getting quite worried that we have very few rights over our common property. 🙁

      Thanks all!

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