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This forum is intended to discuss issues that exist in the real world and predominantly in NSW. The scenario you have outlined above, where everybody does exactly as they are supposed to, when they are supposed to, may exist in Queensland (although I doubt it does in every case). It certainly is a relatively rare event here.
There is a obligation, implied at the very least, for strata committees to act reasonably. If they all did so this website and the related newspaper column would not exist.
I used the example of a bathroom being relocated because it has happened and there are examples of that somewhere deep in the archives of this website. It can occur, for instance, when the downstairs unit is tenanted and its owner is unaware of the details work being done upstairs, or where someone has bought in after the work being done and it either hasn’t been properly documented or the strata search hasn’t revealed the implications of work done some time before.
Believe it or not, people will sell their unit and move on rather than fight for their rights ad risk the problems being documented and that affecting the value of their property.
So, forgive me, but I don’t think there is anything misleading about describing real scenarios that have actually occurred where committees and authorities have only looked at one aspect of a renovation and not considered its impact on other residents.
And on that note, I think this discussion has run its course. Flat Chat out.