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Janet – I really, really don’t want to rain on your parade, but I sincerely hope that its facts and not just an interpretation or opinion that Council’s expressing, because it’s usual in my experience for the floor to the first level of a townhouse or villa and the ceiling above to be common property – and your stairs impact upon both those areas.
It would be great if you could prevail upon Council to at least go public about the fact that the Developer installed the stairs, presumably prior to the issue of its Certificate of Occupancy, because without that being on the record you may yet be lumbered with the lesser of all the potential evils that you’ve been facing, by having to replace your Lot’s stairs with a drop-down ladder.