@mattb said:
… Additionally, if the car parking is underground, the BCA then requires that the car park be adequately ventilated: that one extra car could infact cause significants costs if mechanical ventilation needs to be upgraded or installed. (The BCA also uses a formula to dictate what is needed). There is also the impact to your buildings’ insurance and even fire certificate. For your OC to consider your request to ratify a misuse of parking, they need to cover themselves and that involves council searches and consultants(BCA and fire), none of which is free: irrespective of a financial offer, if they reject (either because they want to or have to) then the OC is still out of pocket merely by engaging council/consultants and the like…
Hi mattb, we have less than 40 cars in our parking area so i think there is no contravention of BCA code F4.11 as it currently stands – that provision specifies mechanical ventilation (which we already have) when there are more than 40 cars involved. If i park 3, and everyone else uses their carspace to capacity, there will be 25 vehicles.
Can you point me to a link where i can find the formula you mention? thanks
Lastly, your comment about ‘wanting’ to reject the financial offer – as distinct from ‘having to’ – does the former not come within ‘unreasonable’ behaviour as defined by s158 of the SSMA? if council, bca, fire, insurance et. al. pose no impediment, and the OC still refuses, is this not ‘unreasonable’ behaviour.
