#24714
Millie
Flatchatter
    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.