Thanks Whale. I appreciate your response so quickly (much quicker than my strata manager – who is apparently NOT my strata manager anymore, although following discussions this afternoon the new one is sympathetic to my plight and has agreed to raise this following the completion of agenda items on Monday).
So, regrettably, it looks like I will only be able to make a complaint this weekend (they were unable to contact my neighbour) in the event that he breaches the council laws on noise.
And, by the way, the new strata manager confirmed they had not received any request for renovations (of any nature including the renovations he undertook of common property).
I guess it’s a wait and see situation – meanwhile, I (not-so-quietly) go insane!! 