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Put up a written proposal asking for a special resolution by-law allowing you to install an awning on common property, accepting the condition that you will maintain and repair the awning and the common property to which it is attached.
If they refuse, inform the strata manager (or committee, if you have one) that you plan to take action under section 232 (2) (below) for failure to exercise a function.
If they still say no, or don’t take steps to have the other awning removed, seek mediation then take them to NCAT.
Section 232 (2) Failure to exercise a function
For the purposes of this section, an owners corporation, strata committee or building management committee is taken not to have exercised a function if:
(a) it decides not to exercise the function, or
(b) application is made to it to exercise the function and it fails for 2 months after the making of the application to exercise the function in accordance with the application or to inform the applicant that it has decided not to exercise the function in accordance with the application.