Double trouble as regs fail on minor renovations

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Dweller456 wrote:

Hello, to summarise the above – if an apartment owner wants double or triple glazing where the actual windows are replaced, they need to seek approval from their strata committee and if approval is given, a special by-law must then be created for the glazing of the windows?

Yeah … kind of … However, theoretically your committee could say no but you could take it to a general meeting and provided you got the special resolution by-laws passed, the committee would be over-ruled.

It seems that any option that doesn’t involve the removal and replacement of window frames would be a minor renovation which would only require committee approval which may not be unreasonably refused. Add the complication of sustainability improvements being deemed minor renovations and you can see this getting very messy very quickly.

By the way the committee can only make these decsisons if they have been delegated to do so by a general meeting (although many if not most schemes now make that arrangement as standard).