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Thanks Sir Humphrey,
The renovations were identical, the only difference being one was on the ground floor and the unapproved one was on the second floor (top level). I am unaware if removing the wall on the top level affected the roof. The owner maintained he was an engineer (no proof ever provided) and had a copy of the plans from the Council, but as far as we know he didn’t get approval from them to remove the wall. As far as the prospective owner was concerned at the EGM he was given approval to start the renovation on settlement of the purchase of the property which was only two weeks before Christmas even though the By-law had not been lodged. The lodgement of the By-law didn’t happen and at the next AGM it was decided not to lodge it as the work had been completed.
Our Strata Manager told us at he time we couldn’t get retrospective approval for the unapproved renovation.
Thanks again Lizzie
In my block of units (24) which an owner removed a wall with out notifying the owners corporation or the strata manager. This was done in a matter of months of the units originally being sold (new building). 8 years later prospective owners wanted to do exactly the same thing , same floor plan but on a different level of the building. The Strata manager made them get an engineer’s report, council approval and have a by-law drawn up which cost in excess of $1500. The wall removed was not structural. My question is there any come back on the owner who did the renovation without approval. The units are an over 55 building.