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Further to what Sir Humphrey wrote, to find committee members individually or collectively culpable for bad decisions, you would have to prove that they were given good advice that they chose to ignore, or that they deliberately decided to avoid decisions that they knew were bad but would save money.
In other words, in the absence of a smoking gun (or smouldering email) you have almost zero chance of proving this, even if it was the case.
Not sure about your reference to barking dogs – was it a literal aside or an allusion to the kind of assumptions you are prepared to make?
By the way, only the new building work in apartment conversions is covered by such warranties as may exist. The remaining original fabric of the building is another matter entirely, and it’s not unusual for problems to appear unexpectedly as the old and new parts of the building settle into each other.