› Flat Chat Strata Forum › Common Property › Roof Insulation › Current Page
14/10/2013 at 7:33 pm
#19792
I don’t think it is an OC responsibility. There is no requirement for a building to be kept up to date with the BCA. So that reasoning is wrong.
But an OC can, of course, decide to do it anyway.
In Victoria, an OC can fund improvements (not repairs/maintenance) to Common Property from the owners that benefit. That seems the fair approach to me. We have a similar situation re the top floor in our building (that meets the BCA 1996) and it is the approach we took. We’ll allow owners to install the insulation above their apartments, but because they are in reality the only beneficiary, they have to pay for it.