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Hi Diana,
What you’re proposing can be quite complex if not handled correctly, so here goes:
1) You need to ask the Secretary of your Executive Committee to convene a General Meeting of the Owners Corporation (O/C), and you need to put forward two (2) Agenda Items:
(i) Seeking the O/C’s consent by way of a Special Resolution for you to make an addition to the Common Property. You should provide the Secretary with copies of the Plans & Specifications of your proposed Deck, together with copies of your tradespeoples’ licenses, copies of their public liability insurance policy/s, and other relevant details such as how they and their equipment will move about and be stored on the Common Property during construction.
(ii) Seeking the Registration of an Exclusive-Use By Law, that as its name implies grants you and all subsequent Owners of your Lot the right to exclusively use the deck, and where the quid-pro-quo is that you and subsequent Owners of your Lot are entirely responsible for the proper maintenance of the deck as an addition to the Common Property.
A Special Resolution can only pass if no more than 25% of those Owners in attendance at the General Meeting, either personally or by proxy, vote against your proposal; so some prior networking would be worthwhile.
There’s no requirement for you to compensate other Owners or your O/C, but it is customary for you as the Proponent to cover the O/C’s costs to convene the General Meeting (unless it’s the scheduled AGM), and to pay its costs to draft and Register the Exclusive Use By-Law on the Strata Title.
By the way, that By-Law should include a provision that your right to exclusively use the deck cannot be rescinded or otherwise removed by the O/C without the prior written consent of the Owner of your Lot (i.e. you and subsequent Owners).
I don’t think I’ve omitted anything of significance, but if I have, I’m sure that others will fill in the gaps.
(Gap 1 – you will need your O/C's consent before you lodge Plans with Council, as the latter will likely want copies of that consent before they consider the Plans – Whale)