KWP – I do understand your point; it’s one you regularly make.
However even though its unitowner1 ‘s Owners Corporation (O/C) who should be meeting all the costs of both rectifying past errors in the management of its Strata Plan and properly considering new renovation works such as those proposed, I guess that any decision about whether to handle such things in the right (legally correct) way or to do them on the sly is a conundrum that individual Owners and indeed O/C’s need to resolve.
At this point in time at least, I remain of the opinion that irrespective of the scale of the individual matters under consideration it’s preferable to manage those in a legally compliant way in the first place, and to thereby avoid future problems, resultant conflicts, and perhaps most of all the foibles of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) where if things haven’t gone totally pear-shaped they then will!