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Many years ago I was involved in putting up buildings and plant on leased property.
From an accounting viewpoint, we could not capitalise the buildings or plant as assets, they were immediately written off as an operating expense. So although we paid for the buildings, we could not “own” and had to leave them behind when the lease expired.
I imagine the same rules would apply in this case, unless there was some prior agreement with the co-op.
The are often EPA/Council issues with a designated “car wash”. It would probably need to have proper drainage, with an arrestor pit to stop contaminants going into the stormwater system. Depending on the site, it might even need a bund wall to restrain waste water.
If there is no proper drainage, where does the water go? If it just stays where you wash, does it constitute a “safety hazard”? If it runs out into the street you may have the council on your case.
If you had a stand alone property which you rented out, and similar works were required to it with the same effect on your tenant(s), what would you do? Who would compensate you?
If Paul H’s property was seemingly so readily accessible to the OC, what protection has he got from less desirable people getting to it ?
@Kangaroo said:At schools, instead of locking them in with a fence, they’re allowed to run out onto the road, and every driver passing by, for eternity, has to slown down after noticing the myriad of signs and flashing lights.
Are you suggesting that kids shouldn’t be allowed to go home?
Most schools do keep their gates locked during the day, but I think more in an effort to keep bad people out.
I would be concerned that a window that can be opened more than 125 mm by an adult can be left open and forgotten about.
@Bennifer said:
Obviously kids falling through windows is truly awful but I have to wonder where parental/owner/tenant responsibility comes into things? Is it really the government’s and the OC’s responsibility to stop it happening?“parental responsibility” is a wonderful concept, but it doesn’t seem to happen too often.
How often do we read about kids drowning in backyard pools, kids being run over by cars in driveways, (sometimes drunk) drivers with unrestrained kids in the car, kids with burns or scalds from playing with kitchen utensils while parent is cooking, etc, etc? Recently I noticed a couple of toddlers playing at the top of an escalator in a shopping centre; I found the parents sitting nearby having a coffee, when I pointed out what was happening the response was simply “we told them not to play there, but they don’t take any notice” and they just carried on with their conversations.
Sadly Government and other third party intervention is necessary to compensate for the growing minority of parents who don’t understand or don’t care about risks.
Would this be an OC issue?
Wouldn’t he just have to get all the individual proprietors to agree to sell, then he becomes the OC.
Our block has a section of the “basement” set aside as a storage area with 21 2m x 2m lockers separated by only chain wire fencing. These would constitute a much higher fire risk than similar material stored at the back of car spaces. We had a fire in the store area a few years back which destroyed everything stored there.
I don’t know how your unit is wired, but usually the main board will have one or two large fuses, and your sub-board a number of smaller fuses for lights, power-points, stove, HWS, etc.
If your problem caused the main fuse to blow, just going down and resetting it without having the problem diagnosed seems very dangerous.