Removal of building features good management or theft

The building has three stair wells with corridors between for access internally to the garages

Originally there where locks on all entry doors including the access to the corridors in total nine locked doors

Then an owner locked themselves out and the locks where made in operational

Then for fire safety the locks where changed from knobs to handles with no locks

Then an owner requested maintenance of all original (lock) fittings as there is no documents, minutes of owners being advised of the not by owners approved changes

At best the executive committee minutes: written request by an owner RESOLVED matter raised have been attended to as a matter of course, with no information about the request and no information about the action

Stated by the executive committee; it is to expensive to install an intercom system and we should be proud of giving access to homeless people to sleep in the stair well and security is the individual lot owners responsibility and the cleaner is doing a good job of cleaning up after the sleeping and shitting in the stairwell.

It is also well known that an executive committee member does not live in the lot but uses the lot as a training studio for visitors and seems to have convinced the rest that it would be too difficult to go down and let them in.

Enter our street address in GOOGLE and you will find the studio clearly professional activities in a domestic dwelling

The “mates” has also given him permanent access to the visitors parking signed by the strata manager

The lot is domestic only hence the studio is not council approved.

The  same executive member has had his internal garage door broken from a break and enter and cannot be closed for the last ten years I suspect if you do not live there and have a permit to park in the visitor parking you are saving on maintenance even if the lots lose value due to bad looks.

All under the supervision of the strata manager that also serve as the secretary at meetings

The trend is continuing with more features removed to save on maintenance all clearly indirectly minuted like quote approved to do maintenance work (without the mentioning of removal) but never advised too or approved by the owners.

Garden and entrance lightning removed

Sound blocking and privacy screening trees between the building and the highway removed

All written requests to be maintained back to original state get the same waffle

Written request by an owner RESOLVED matter raised have been attended to as a matter of course with no information about the request and no information about the action

Are the strata manager and the executive committee breaking three fundamental intentions of the strata laws?

1. Not informing the owners about requests from owners and not giving any information about actions taken
2. Removing features from the common property without owners consent and mostly not even advising
3. Allowing an owner unlimited access to visitor parking in writing (his parking not his visitors, all lots are allocated garages) without owners consent

I thought that a detailed agenda was compulsory to allow the owners the right to object prior to the vote and removing building features could only be done by a unanimous owners resolution with the exception of when it will not affect the safety of any building, structure or common property in the strata scheme or detract from the appearance of any property in the strata scheme, where a special resolution is accepted.

And my understanding of NSW law is that any change that decreases the value of a lot requires the lot owners consent.

If it is a clear breach of the law where do you go to get rectification surely not to an arbitrator as seems to be the general opinion? Normally for theft you go to the police first!

As the executive committee under the guidance of the strata manager out votes the rest attending the AGM no change is possible.

Sorry about the long rant but I got such an excellent response to my last that I had to get this of my chest as well

Thanks to Flat chat