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All advice states that you should try approaching your neighbour first.
But if that fails, there are options under the Owners Corporations Act 2006 VIC.
Check your OC’s registered rules. But the Owners Corporations Act 2006 VIC Model Rules state:
- An owner or occupier of a lot, or a guest of an owner or occupier, must not unreasonably create any noise likely to interfere with the peaceful enjoyment of any other person entitled to use the common property.
- An owner or occupier of a lot must take all reasonable steps to ensure that guests of the owner or occupier do not behave in a manner likely to unreasonably interfere with the peaceful enjoyment of any other person entitled to use the common property.
Although a “strict” OC might be active in enforcing the OC Act and OC rules, any resident can independently start a three step process to resolve noise issues that can eventually see the matter taken to VCAT and an order obtained:
It can help if you maintain a log of the noise events and check with other residents to see if they are similarly affected.
In my experience as an OC chair, noise matters have not gone past the internal dispute resolution step which includes a grievance meeting. First the OC has issued breach notices. But when they have been ignored, formally bringing the parties together in a grievance meeting has been reasonably successful.