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I’ve just purchased my first strata unit in NSW in an older strata scheme and don’t yet know how the strata laws work. A few units do not have a garage or carspace and some owners have requested that the owners corporation create 2-3 carspaces on an area of garden at the back of the property that cannot be seen from the road. It would mean building concrete slabs over part of the lawn for cars to park on and the driveway would need to be extended by concreting it up to the new carspaces.

The main point of contention is that some owners say the advice they were given is that nobody can be granted exclusive use of common property land without paying the owners corporation a price or compensation for it. 

However the owners who want a carspace built for them and want to be given exclusive use of those carspaces say they have been advised that no kind of price or compensation is payable for being given exclusive use of any part of common property regardless of whether it’s inside a building or outside on the land. They don’t want to pay anything, not even the legal fees. They say that the only requirement is that a by-law granting exclusive use be passed by the owners corporation and registered.

Can you help to solve this difference of opinion please? 

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