#60194
Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    There should already be provisions in the “take it or leave it” proposal on which you are being asked to vote.

    These should include

    • limiting noisy work to a minimum number of days (rather than unplanned stop-start drilling etc)
    • Limiting noisy work to certain hours (after 8.30 am and before 5 pm, for instance)
    • Work on weekdays only – no weekend work at all.  As the renovator is a builder, he will have the ability to work whenever he wants and pull tradies in from other jobs for weekend work
    • Provision for temporary accommodation for worst affected residents during noisiest period
    • Before and after pictures of interior walls
    • Provisions for clearing rubble and cleaning common property
    • Provisions for tradies’ parking

    Now, it may be that these protections have already been included as conditions for approval of the common property by-law that allows the work to be done.

    If not, these are perfectly reasonable and standard practice issues that you need to raise before the EGM.

    Otherwise, you can raise them as an amendment to the by-law at the EGM – just make sure you have enough numbers (25 per cent of unit entitlements) to vote down the by-law at the EGM if they don’t agree.

    Start contacting the owners of neighbouring apartments now, to get their support.

     

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