@Sir Humphrey said:
Parking spaces that comply with Australian Standards may need to be wider if there are impediments such as bollards.
True. And standard parking space sizes are based on the dimensions of a 1979 Ford Falcon.
I think the case that I am recalling required the bollard to be placed so that it neither impeded access and egress nor the opening of doors.
More fundamentally, I think for the second year in a row, the best-selling vehicles in Australia have been the monster crew-cab utes that we see everywhere.
As this brilliantly written and incredibly informative article asks, how long will it be before we have a debate on whether or not you can limit the size of vehicles in apartment block parking? Most of these monster trucks fill every last cm of a standard space (allowing no extra for opening doors) and some are actually too long to fit in.
In the meantime, generally speaking, Notices to Comply for parking over the line and over common property or other spaces may be the way to go.
By the way, I am reliably informed that only one local council (Lane Cove, I think) in the whole of NSW is participating in policing parking in strata blocks. Yet another of our fabulous new strata laws that, 18 months later, turned out to be little more than window dressing.