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Thank you Sir Humphrey, for your reply, much appreciated – just in past few days the committee members have received more email(s) from this owner saying the below:-
“I can’t understand how the back steps are considered to be part of the courtyard when they originally formed part of the main building in the original building design. Without the steps the building would have been considered unfinished and quite clearly the original workmanship was substandard with insufficient footings. the steps were obviously not constructed correctly when the building was first built and i believe should not be the responsibility of the owner in this instance”
“I still cannot quite understand how the rear steps can be considered separate to the building because as per my previous comments, if the steps were not part of the original building then the property would have been considered incomplete.
I appreciate that the properties were constructed several years ago but the defect is the result of shoddy workmanship when first constructed and were this known at the time, would have been rejected.”
Seven other townhouses have these stairs in back courtyards at varying amount of steps & none have this issue. We are thinking he believes, this is a boundary wall and yes its an outside wall of the t’house on the strata plan it shows no stairs at the back. (albeit the architects drawings do) i can see this heading to a legal opinion as these emails from the owner are now five, in a very short period of time. will ask the Strata Manager (again) to send the relevant Strata Act to this owner. short of asking this owner to visualise that the back courtyard is another ‘room’ and everything in it is owner responsibility.