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I don’t know about insightful, but I was trying to suggest a simple and hopefully acceptable (to both sides) approach to a situation that’s actually quite complex.
To elaborate just a little, in the absence of a Special Resolution of the O/C that removes its responsibility to maintain the affected sections of its Common Property or a Registered Special By-Law that subsequent to the O/C’s consent to works of the types involved can transfer that responsibility to the respective Owners, under Sect 62 of the SCMA the O/C has an unfettered responsibility to “…properly maintain and keep in a state of good and serviceable repair the common property..”.
Other complications that I didn’t mention in my original reply include whether or not the O/C could have been reasonably aware that the works were being undertaken and therefore could/should have intervened, if any of the current Owners are the ones who actually undertook the works and would therefore be absolutely aware, whether the living space of the affected Units could have increased their “value” and therefore their units of entitlement (and levies paid), and if the enclosed balcony areas to which you referred were also the subject of un-consented changes to Common Property.
On that last matter, it’s the Strata Title Plan that determines the boundaries of the Common Property not peoples’ “suggestions”, so unless that Plan’s been amended after a re-survey and re-valuation of the Lots, then what was originally registered stands.
As was recently commented in FlatChat, nothing’s out-of-bounds in Strata until somebody complains, so depending upon the relevance of those items mentioned above, there’s absolutely no reason for you and other like-minded Owners not to adopt a shock and awe approach by amending item 2 of my draft Motion to the extent that the O/C will undertake and meet the cost of the works now required to return its Common Property to its as-built / compliant state, and that the 7 Owners will reimburse all those costs.
I guess it all comes down to the cost of the works, and how hard you and the other Owners want to push.