Re: Ordered to remove child safety nets from balcony

The notice is hand written onto a typed form.  It just states Bylaw 7 (which I think is the same as bylaw 5 in the new strata laws) It states “Installing unapproved netting to the balcony of unit 401 causing damage to the common property”  Our building is a new building. We moved in last April. 

Any more information I have supplied is only from the ( somewhat surly) emails from the strata manager as replies to my many emails since then. 

here is what the strata manager has since supplied:

in February:

7:1 An owner or occupier must not drive nails screws etc etc

and            7:2 an approval given by the owners corporation under 7:1  cannot authorise any additions to the common property 

You have breached by-law 7 –

And you have also breached the Architectural Code for the Building as set out in the Strata Management Statement.

And you have breached Section 108 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015.

and last friday: 

1. I understand that it is the Committee’s position that the Balconies comply with the relevant BCA as to balustrade heights and the is no need for the netting to have been installed.  Similarly, it was the Council that raised concern regarding the installation as it breaches the Architectural Code for the Building.  Lastly, the main concern of the Committee is the penetration through membranes and the structure of the building, which in accordance with the Strata Act, requires a prior special resolution and by-law to permit this type of work, detailing the obligations for the ongoing responsibility for maintenance.  The last instructions we had received on the matter was to seek the removal of the netting.