Hi,
Just looping back on this, to possibly assist people in the future.
It ended up going to Fair Trading mediation, I represented myself, the committee was represented by the strata manager.
Mediation was fairly straight forward, we both outlined our case and then the mediator came back to each party individually to work through an amicable solution.
In our situation the strata manager had been given prior instructions from the committee, to agree to the install.
In the end nothing changed from the original installation proposal and I now have air-conditioning installed.
In hindsight I should have progressed to mediation sooner.
Best of luck out there fellow strata dwellers !
