Your analogy has a few substantial holes in it, not least what constitutes “adequate information”.
If you go to your committee and say, “hey, I want to extend my roof and build into the common property air space and change the exterior look of the scheme,’ what’s to stop them telling you that you will need by-laws, council planning and, by the way, a lot of other owners will object and will have good grounds to do so.
But no, according to the analogy, the committee will need to see detailed drawings and engineering reports on something that had a fairly limited chance of approval in the first place?
A lot of people in strata don’t know what restrictions there might be on them doing what they want with their homes. Explaining the facts of strata life to them costs nothing, commits no one to anything either way, and avoids unnecessary cost or conflict.
That is VERY different from having a chat with your council planning department, not least because the planning person is not your neighbour.
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