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05/04/2016 at 8:11 am
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Many people work from home these days. There’s working from home and then there’s running a business from a residential property.
Your local council will have a Local Environment Plan (LEP) eg; the City of Sydney’s can be found here.
If you’re within the boundaries of your LEP, no sweat. If you’re not, it is effectively a change of use, and your by-laws will almost definitely say that any change of use must be brought to the attention of the Owners Corporation.
Everyone has obligations to the OC to ensure that a change of use does not negatively impact on any insurance claim – Lot Owners have unlimited liability.
It’s easy enough to establish whether or not what one is doing sits within the parameters of the LEP. Just verify ‘yes’/’no’, out of respect for the others in your OC and in line with the Terms and Conditions of your Strata Scheme’s mandatory building insurance policy.