Jo Cooper

NCAT is in serious need of a royal commission. And the new Minister is not interested in hearing all the bullying and misconduct that goes on in strata. The 139 recommendations from the strata reform do little to address any of the real day to day issues that strata owners experience. The entire system is broken, and the government don’t seem concerned that this impacts thousands of owners

I have a sister who has severe asthma since childhood and a friends mother who has been in hospital many times from asthma attacks and not because she was in a strata scheme. I know all too well the reality of asthma/allergies and I am sticking to the facts. I will leave the conversation here as it seems you are intent on trying to paint me in a different light than who I am and I am all too familiar with this.

<p style=”text-align: justify;”><span style=”font-family: ‘Arial’,sans-serif;”>The point that seems to be overlooked, is strata legislation/law has been in contravention of property laws/rights for a long time. The Court of Appeal have reminded them that this is not within their powers to do. </span></p>
<p style=”text-align: justify;”><span style=”font-family: ‘Arial’,sans-serif;”>Comparing a place of work to people’s homes is a bit strange, people with allergies still go out to Markets, cafe’s and the like where pets aren’t banned. If you have allergies to the degree that some are claiming one vs dozen would not make a difference, the reality is passing a pet and having a pet next door is not going to be an issue and if it is, then I doubt living in an apartment would be the best choice, given all the hidden cats in non-pet friendly buildings. You also can’t stop people who work with pets and have pet dander on them walking past you.</span></p>
<p style=”text-align: justify;”><span style=”font-family: ‘Arial’,sans-serif;”>Victoria has no model by-law regarding pets and no cases of allergy deaths, I’m not sure why NSW seems to be clinging onto an extremely outdated model or thinking.</span></p>

You can split hairs if you like, it doesn’t change the fact that therapy/assistant animals are not allergen free which was my point. As long as they are allowed in any building, there was never a guarantee that a scheme would be pet free, even the smaller ones you mention.

I have done the research and encourage you to do the same in finding someone who has suffered life-threatening reaction due to a pet next door? With this ‘logic’, flowers, dust, perfume, peanuts should be banned, the allergy argument is flawed.

It is a concern that anyone thinks they should have the right to dictate what one does in their own home, thankfully the Court of Appeal Judges found what I have always argued, strata legislation should not override property legislation which gives us the right to the enjoyment of our homes as long as we respect and do not infringe on our neighbours. A strata home is still a home and these excuses really need to cease.